DESCRIPTION.
Stem two feet high, flexuose-erect, with few large branches, and numerous erect downy small ones.
Leaves in threes, obtusely awl-shaped, a little incurved, villose, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers tubular, terminal on the little branches, in three-flowered bunches, which spread a little.
Empalement double, densely ciliated, coloured, outer three-leaved, with the leaflets awl-shaped and pressed to the inner, which is four-leaved and longer.
Blossom an inch long, the lower part red-purple, the upper green, with the segments very slightly bent back.
Chives eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, within the blossom, brownish.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped; shaft thread-shaped, hooked at the point, longer than the blossom; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till April.