Leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, almost three-sided, thickish, very short foot-stalks, which are pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in umbels, at the end of the larger and smaller branches, nodding, all pointing one way, and are purple; foot-stalks thrice the length of the flowers, coloured, and three small floral leaves upon them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets small, pressed to the blossom, fringed and awl-shaped.
Blossom approaching to bell-shape; the lower part flat, and purple; the segments of the border are blunt and rather upright
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, turned inwards at the upper part. Tips crested, deep purple, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft longer than the chives, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered and greenish.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till December.
REFERENCE.
| 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 2. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 3. The Blossom. |
| 4. The Chives, and Pointal. |
| 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one Tip magnified. |
| 6. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 129] |