DESCRIPTION.
Stem slender, and flexuose, with divaricating slender branches, and numerous short lesser branches.
Leaves in fours, expanded, or recurved, linear, blunt-ended, and downy.
Flowers terminal on the small lateral branches and numerous, somewhat whorled, and frequently in threes; peduncles only half the length of the blossom, and furnished at the base with three minute floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets awl-shaped, and minutely ciliated.
Blossom somewhat cylindrical, or rather very narrowly bell-shaped, downy, flesh-coloured, or pale coccineous, with the segments spreading, egg-shaped, blunt-ended, and whitish, or rather of a fine waxen colour.
Chives eight, capillary; tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till October.