Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips nearly without the blossom, and beardless.
Pointal. Seed-vessel cylindrical. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till December.
REFERENCE.
| 1. The Empalement and Blossom. |
| 2. The Empalement magnified. |
| 3. The Chives and Pointal. |
| 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. |
| 5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. |
