Leaves grow by fours, linearly three-sided, upright, furrowed on the under part and smooth; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the branches, are a little bent downwards, and grow in small bunches; the foot-stalks are thread-shaped, with three linear floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the little leaves are awl-shaped, keeled, furrowed, smooth, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, and a little longer than the cup; the segments of the border are blunt, upright and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, bent inwards at the ends. Tips egg-shaped, brown, crested and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June, till September.
REFERENCE.
| 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 2. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 3. The Chives, and Pointal. |
| 4. A Chive, magnified. |
| 5. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 149] |