Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy, purple at the base, and white at the upper part; the segments are ovate, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of January till May,
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified, 6. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 145]. |
