DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, two feet high, and hairy; the smaller branches grow by threes in whorls.
Leaves by threes and fours, linear, straight, blunt, and hairy, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by threes, between spreading and hanging down; footstalks very short, with three floral leaves, lance-shaped, fringed, and pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, fringed, and furrowed.
Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, and green; the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from October till January.