DESCRIPTION.
Stem low, shrubby, upright, and scarce a foot high; the large and small branches are flexuose, thread-shaped, and nearly covered by the leaves.
Leaves mostly by fours, blunt-ended, and beset with long rusty-coloured hairs, flat on the upper surface, and slightly furrowed beneath; footstalks long, and pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the smaller branches in single horizontal whorls; footstalks coloured, slightly hispid, and furnished with three hairy floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with long rusty-coloured hairs at their points.
Blossom inflated at the base, and tapering to the point; the lower part of a flesh-colour, the upper of a deep purple, straightened at the mouth; the segments are pointed, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud club-shaped. Shaft within. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.