DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, simple; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.
Leaves grow by sixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till November.