DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, two feet high, with numerous whorled branches, very slightly spreading.
Leaves in threes, erect, small, fleshy, shining, furrowed beneath, with petioles pressed to the branchlets.
Flowers solitary, terminal, on very numerous, lateral, ternate, and slightly drooping branches; peduncles furnished with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets egg-shaped.
Blossom small, square, of a yellow-white colour, with segments spreading and rounded.
Chives eight, capillary, very long, and hanging more or less out of the flower; tips beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly; shaft thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.