Chives. Eight flat threads. Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom, and dark purple.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, furrowed, smooth. Shaft thread-shaped, longer than the chives. Summit bluntly four-cornered, dark purple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till July.
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1. A Flower, natural size. 2. The Empalement. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Blossom, Chives, and Pointal. 5. The Chives, very much magnified. 6. The Pointal magnified[Pg 241]. |
