branches herbaceous, erect, glabrous, or shortly pubescent; leaves alternate, erect, linear, narrow, glabrous, rigid, remotely denticulate on the thickened margins; flowers disposed in an elongate raceme; peduncles leafy, 1–3 flowered; pedicels short; calyx-tube turbinate; lobes denticulate, as long as the tube; corolla 5-parted, glabrous. Branches 1 foot, terete. Leaves about 4 lines long, 1/2 line broad, with a fascicle of smaller ones in the axil. Raceme secundate. Peduncles 4–6 lines long, with small leaflike bracts. Pedicels equalling the calyx tube. Calyx glabrous. Corolla with narrow segments. Capsule with 3 valves, twice shorter than the turbinate base of the capsule. It has the leaves of the following species, but a very different capsule.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Caledonriver, Zeyher. Janr. (Herb. Sd.)
