Flowers are in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out, having short foot-stalks with three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are lance-shaped, sawed at the base, green, and smooth.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, blunt, straight, and purple, compressed at the mouth, with a four-lobed, reflexed border.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and nearly of a length with the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, the top crowned by eight plumes of long hairs. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till January.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A leaf with its foot-stalk. |
| 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. |
