DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose-erect, with branches often a little bundled, rather spreading, and a brown bark.
Leaves in fours, rather spreading, linear, smooth, naked, shining, with very short footstalks.
Flowers in fours, terminal on the lesser branches, in little sessile heads.
Empalement double, the outer three-leaved, with the leaflets awl-shaped, with skinny margins; the inner four-leaved, with leaflets twice as long, pressed to the blossom, and serrulate-torn.
Blossom ovate-cone-shaped, polished, shining, flesh-coloured, with segments nearly egg-shaped and recurved.
Chives, eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, within the blossom, brown.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, slightly furrowed. Shaft as high as the tube of the blossom; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till June.