DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, thread-shaped, a span high; the larger and smaller branches grow straddling and thread-shaped, hairy and very numerous.
Leaves grow by threes, linear, hairy, blunt, upright, a little incurved, with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow at the end of the small branches in umbels or heads, very numerous; fruit-stalks hair-like, the length of the blossoms, coloured, having three hairy floral-leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, concave, being thickly covered with whitish wool.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, slightly covered with white wool, cloathed with the leaflets of the cup; segments blunt, upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, very far without the blossom. Summit headed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till August.