Chives. Eight linear, flat threads, much longer than the blossom, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and not to be distinguished from the threads.
Pointal. Seed-vessel nearly oval. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February, till July.
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.[Pg 29] |
