Leaves grow by fours, often by threes, are blunt, hairy, upright, and furrowed beneath; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, are numerous and purple; the foot-stalks are hair-like, with three hairy floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets hairy, awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom egg-shaped obtuse, covered with soft hairs; segments of the border small and upright.
Chives. Threads hair-like. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud inversely egg-shaped, squared and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, bowed and purple. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from October, till March.
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1. A leaf, magnified. 2. The Blossom and Empalement. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 5. The Pointal, magnified[Pg 209]. |