Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are each terminated by a bristle, the ends fringed, nearly oval, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
The Blossom is swelled out at the base, and tapers to the point, the lower part is of a flesh colour, the upper deep purple, straightened at the mouth, whose segments are egg-shaped, and bent back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. The tips are within the blossom, beardless, and covered with hairs.
Pointal. Seed-vessel club-shaped; shaft without the blossom, and purple; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July, till October.
REFERENCE.
| 1. One leaf magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 3. The Empalement magnified. |
| 4. The Chives and Pointal. |
| 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. |
| 6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. |
