DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, cylindrical, branching, shrubby, grows a span high; the larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped, grow in whorls and spreading.
Leaves grow by fours, blunt, reflexed, smooth, shining; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow near the ends of the branches in umbels and horizontal; foot-stalks very long, coloured, two floral-leaves, small, concave and coloured.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets spathula-shaped, concave, coloured, with green ends and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom nearly bell-shaped, purple, tube very short; border very large; segments concave, egg-shaped, spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length of the tube. Tips two-cleft, tapered, and beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, purple, longer than the blossom. Summit obsolete.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.