Empalement. Cup four-leaved, channelled; leaflets pointedly egg-shaped, clammy on the inside, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, and hairy, of a red purple, green-ended and clammy. Segments of the border upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, glandular at the base and top. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, curved at the point. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till December.
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1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Empalement and floral leaves magnified. 4. The Chives free, one tip detached magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 285]. |
