DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright; with numerous small branches.
Leaves by threes, obtuse, linear, furrowed beneath, and between erect and spreading.
Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels of from three to five, and nodding; footstalks short, with three floral leaves of the shape of the cup, and pressed to it.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets are spathula-shaped, spreading, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom egg-shaped, and swelled out, of a crystalline white, shining, and of the size of a pea; the segments of the border are reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and hairy. Shaft just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.