Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, concave, on their outsides covered with a thick white wool, and on their insides flesh coloured.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, downy, white, and covered totally by a woolly cup; the segments of the mouth are spread out, and blunt.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and black.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shape, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February, till June.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A Leaf, magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement. |
| 3. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 4. The Blossom. |
| 5. The Blossom, magnified. |
| 6. The Chives, and Pointal. |
| 7. The Chives, detached from the Pointal. |
| 8. A Chive, magnified. |
| 9. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 33] |
