Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets erect, awl-shaped, hispid, and shorter than the blossom.
Blossom small, naked, obscurely bell-shaped, flesh-coloured, with the segments rather egg-shaped and patulous.
Chives eight hair-like threads, with the tips crested and within the blossom.
Pointal. Germen turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of March till May, and again from August to September.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The under side of a Leaf magnified, 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Empalement and Blossom. 5. A Blossom divested of the empalement. 6. The Chives and Pointal. 7. The same magnified. 8. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 245]. |
