Empalement. Cup four-leaved: leaves blunt, smooth, and nearly egg-shaped.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch and a half long, yellow, and tapering to the base: the segments of the mouth are large, and rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed to the receptacle: the tips are cleft, two-horned at their base, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel cylinder-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till August.
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.[Pg 65] |
