pubescent, roughish; stem simple or branched, leafy, denudate above; the leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, the lower broader; flowers racemose, the fruiting calyces very long, clavate; thecaphore as long as the capsule or longer. Root perennial, many-stemmed. Stems a foot or more in height, erect or decumbent. Leaves in a, uncial, a line wide; in β. twice or thrice as wide, 1–1 1/2 inch long. Flowering raceme cernuous, fruiting erect, 6–12 flowered. Peduncles 1/2–2 lines long, the bracts lanceolate. Calyx 9–10 lines long, with coloured striæ, hairy, the teeth obtuse. Petals flesh-coloured, rather longer than the calyx, bifid, coronate. Capsule ovoid, 5 lines long. Known from the preceding, to which it is allied, by its perennial root, stems not filiform, wider leaves, and longer calyx and thecaphore. S. acuta, E. Mey.! in Herb. Drege, seems to belong to var. γ. It differs merely in the fewer flowered racemes and smaller flowers. The only specimen we have seen of it was gathered between Omtendo and Omsamculo, Caffr.
