Leaves grow by threes, linear, pressed to the stem, three-sided, smooth, blunt, the length of the intervals.
Flowers terminate the small branches, clustered together, forming long bunches; foot-stalks short, hair-like, having three, linear floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets concave, nearly egg-shaped, with the ends slightly sawed.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, rather cylindrical; segments blunt and nearly upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, within the blossom, and two-cleft.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, and furrowed, concave at top, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, upright, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from January ’till March.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Empalement, and Blossom. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 4. The Seed-bud, magnified[Pg 149]. |