Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are spathula-shaped, thick, clammy, blunt at their ends, and hollow, without.
The Blossom is an inch and a half long, channelled, and linear, swelled at the end, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments of the border are very large, and expanded; of a light flesh colour on the outside, white within.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads twirled; tips two horned at their base, the points horned, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel oblong, and furrowed; the shaft straight, thread-shaped, purple, and without the blossom; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July, till October.
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 13] |
