DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot high, shrubby; branches numerous, and covered by very short smaller ones.
Leaves by threes, blunt, crowded, and downy; of a mealy green, and spreading.
Flowers grow by threes at the ends of the small branches, nodding, with very short footstalks.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved, and pressed to the inner, which is four-leaved; leaflets are egg-shaped, and hairy at the edges.
Blossom cylindrically pitcher-shaped, of a powdery purple; the segments of the border obtuse, and nearly upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, glandular at the base; shaft thread-shaped, upright, and within the blossom.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till October.