Empalement. Cup double, the outer, three-leaved, leaflets broad-egg-shaped, harsh, yellow, pressed to the inner ones and tiled; the inner, four-leaved, leaflets like those of the outer, but twice the length.
Blossom conical, thrice the length of the cup, orange-coloured; segments of the border egg-shaped, upright, swelled out and incurved.
Chives. Eight linear, flat threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom, linear, the length of the blossom, flat and of red-brown.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the tips. Summit bluntly four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till May.
REFERENCE.
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1. A Flower. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives, and Pointal. 4. The Chives free, one tip detached, magnified. 5. The Pointal, natural size. 6. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 185]. |
