Leaves grow by fours, linear, obtuse, a little hairy, roughish and spreading; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers grow on the upper branches in loose spikes, pointing one way, nodding and in bunches; the foot-stalks very short, having three small floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are tapered, very short, smooth and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom, bell-shaped, small, sweet-scented, and white; the segments upright, with the points a little bent outwards.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved at the end. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from October, till February.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A Leaf, magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 3. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 4. The Chives, magnified. |
| 5. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 37] |