DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot and a half high, and branching; branches by threes, spreading, and upright.
Leaves by threes, blunt, linear, harsh, upright, and spreading.
Flowers terminate the branches by threes, nodding; footstalks long, and furnished with three spathula-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets are broadly egg-shaped, coloured at the ends, and turned inwards.
Blossom turban-shaped, flesh-coloured at the ends, and whitish at the base; the segments of the border are very small, blunt, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.