DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, streight, slender, two feet high; branches chiefly in threes, spreading, also slender, with the lesser branches often opposite.
Leaves in threes, awl-shaped, erect, very shortly petiolate, smooth, shining, green, but often with a tincture of brown.
Flowers terminal in little three-flowered umbels; footstalks about the length of the flowers, furnished above with three coloured, ciliated, floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the little leaves broad egg-shaped, sharp-pointed and ciliated.
Blossom shortly bell-shaped, with rather spreading segments, of a pale, shining, flesh colour.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips crested, just within the blossom.
Pointal, seed-bud turban-shaped; shaft columnar, dilated at the base, higher than the tips.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till June.