suffruticose, glabrous, or nearly so; leaves densely set, erecto-patent, rigid, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate, flat, midribbed, conspicuously ciliate-denticulate; racemes terminal, erect, subumbellate, few flowered; pedicels filiform, longer than the flowers; bracts subulate, acute; alæ ovate, acute, ant. sepals ovate, acuminate, not ciliolate; keel moderately crested, lat. petals small, linear-oblong, truncate, capsules Closely related to P. ericæfolia, but differing as follows: The bracts are much longer, and more acute, the alæ and ant.-sepals and lat.-petals are very different, and the leaves are much more decidedly denticulate. The inflorescence is more umbellate than in any other Cape species.