Leaves grow by fours, reflexed, harsh, fringed, furrowed beneath; very short foot-stalks.
Flowers terminate the branches by fours, are upright, smooth, and sit close on to the branch; foot-stalks very short, having three egg-shaped, fringed floral leaves, which are pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, concave, fringed, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bellied, squared at the base, straitened at the mouth, slightly striped, and very smooth; border very large, segments a little scolloped, rounded and spreading; eight glands surrounding the mouth.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips within the blossom, two-cleft, and two horns at the base.
Pointal. Seed-bud tapered, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, nearly without the blossom. Summit a little four-cornered, and purple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April, till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Empalement and Blossom. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Blossom. 4. One segment of the border, magnified. 5. The Chives, one tip, magnified. 6. The Pointal, magnified[Pg 169]. |