Empalment. Cup four-leaved; leaflets spathula shaped, bearded, glandularly-hairy and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy, viscous, segments of the mouth upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed, hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit bluntly four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till August.
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1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Cup, magnified. 3. The Blossom, natural size. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 6. A Chive, magnified. 7. The Pointal, magnified.[Pg 25] |
