DESCRIPTION.
Stem sturdy, a foot high, very branching; the branches straddle, and are stiff; the smaller branches straddle, are numerous, downy, and opposite.
Leaves grow by threes, awl-shaped, recurved, three-sided, smooth, foot-stalks short.
Flowers grow mostly by threes, nodding, and terminating the branches; the foot-stalks shorter than the leaves, naked.
Empalement. Cup double, the inner four-leaved, leaflets broad egg-shaped, concave, pointed, pressed to the blossom and coloured; the outer three-leaved, the leaflets smaller.
Blossom egg-shaped, inflated, very large, of a pale yellow; segments erect, tapered, approaching, and blunt-ended.
Chives. Eight flat threads, linear, curved. Tips beardless, within the blossom, two-cleft, pointed at the top, concave at the back, slightly adhering together.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, upright. Summit slightly four-cornered, green.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till July.