Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, clammy, and purple.
Blossom, clammy, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and pinched in at the mouth; the segments spreading, nearly egg-shaped and very large.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips two horned at the base, tapered to the points and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July, till November.
REFERENCE.
| 1. A Leaf, magnified. |
| 2. The Empalement, magnified. |
| 3. The Empalement, and Blossom. |
| 4. The Chives, and Pointal. |
| 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. |
| 6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.[Pg 125] |
