Empalement. Cup four leaves, leaflets spatula-shape and fringed, with scarce any foot-stalks; three floral leaves pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, curved, hairy and flesh-coloured; the segments of the border pointed, and reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud growing on a foot-stalk nearly globular, and deeply furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, curved at the end, and without the blossom. Summit obscurely four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A Leaf, magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement. |
| 3. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 4. The Blossom. |
| 5. The Chives, and Pointal, one tip magnified. |
| 6. The Pointal. |
| 7. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 265] |
