DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, but more or less flexuose, with the branches long, simple, and leafy.
Leaves chiefly in eights, crowded, bristle-shaped, half a line long, blunt, attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks, and thence elegantly tremulous.
Flowers crowdedly whorled, near the ends of the stoutest branches, expanded or nodding; peduncles short, furnished near the middle with three alternate floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets pressed to the blossom, near the base lance-egg-shaped, upwards extremely acuminated.
Blossom deep rosy, above an inch long, towards the base more attenuated, and near the apex more inflated, than the other varieties of this species.
Chives eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, rather without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, upwards silky, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing glands.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.