Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length of the tube, fixed into the receptacle. Tips two-cleft, and two-horned at the base.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, twice its length, and purple. Summit concave, and bordered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April, till July.
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 Summit, magnified.[Pg 81] |
