DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, nearly upright, and slender; the large and small branches grow in whorls.
Leaves by sixes, linear, blunt, and bowed, with long footstalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in loose spikes about the middle of the branches from the footstalks of the leaves, and hang down; footstalks long, and coloured.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with three floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Blossom bell-shaped, ribbed, and of a deep flesh colour; the segments of the border are bent back.
Chives. Eight linear threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud crown-shaped, downy, and white, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft just within the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from November till January.