DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and bushy; the smaller branches are numerous, and ascending.
Leaves by fives, awl-shaped, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed on the under side, smooth, thickish, upright, and crowded.
Flowers sessile, upright, fastigiate, and terminating the branches by fours and fives.
Empalement. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved, with awl-shaped leaflets and hairy margins; the inner one is four-leaved, with longer leaflets.
Blossom bellied, pellucid, narrowed at the mouth, which is ornamented like a cowslip; the segments of the border are heart-shaped, spreading, and white, of a bright red on the under side.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at their base. Shaft just within the blossom. Summit just without, and four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.