Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips just within the blossom, beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed, hollow at the top, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July, till September.
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1. A Flower. 2. The Cup, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one of the tips detached and magnified. 4. The Pointal, the summit detached and magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 21] |
