DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, scarce a foot high, branching; the small and large branches are flexuose, and thread-shaped.
Leaves by fours and fives, nearly three-sided, rolled back, shining, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers terminate the branches in bunches, mostly in fours; footstalks long, coloured, and furnished with three lance-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, viscous, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom of an inflated tubular form, narrowed at the mouth, which is of a deep purple, an inch long, and shining; the segments of the border are rounded, spread, and white.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips within the blossom, and two-horned at their base.
Pointal. Seed-bud of an oblong form, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and white. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from November till January, and again early in summer.