Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, hairy at the end and pressed to the blossoms.
Blossom pitcher-shape, smooth, whitish and small; the segments of the border are almost upright and blunt.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips within the blossom and two-horned at the base.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and very long. Summit very large, four-cornered, and purple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till April.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A leaf, magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 3. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 4. The Chives, and Pointal. |
| 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal. |
| 6. A Chive, magnified. |
| 7. The Pointal, magnified. |
