Leaves in fours, crowded, spreading a little, linear, but broadish and rather thick, very obtuse, shining, and on the margin, especially in the magnifier, cartilaginous, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers terminal, and chiefly in threes, nodding, or cernuous, or sometimes more erect; peduncles the length of the blossom, red, and furnished with three alternate floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets close pressed to the blossom, somewhat spear-shaped, very blunt, and bluntly keeled, and membranaceous towards the margin.
Blossom bell-shaped, white, with the segments half round and spreading.
Chives eight, capillary; tips bearded, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud crown-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-angled.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July to November.
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1. The under side of a Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 5. The Seed-bud and Pointal with the summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 229]. |