Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length of the tube. Tips beardless, and just within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till December.
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. |
