Leaves in threes, rather spreading, very short, linear, blunt, furrowed beneath.
Flowers umbelled, terminal, 3 to 8, in each umbel, with peduncles thread-shaped, nearly two lines long, and pubescent when magnified.
Empalement double, outer less, three-leaved, upper four-leaved, the little leaves green, and furrowed on the back.
Blossom globose-conic, pale red-purple, with the segments erect, and roundish.
Chives. Eight, hair-like, inserted into the receptacle, tips beardless, without the blossom, brown.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-oblong, furrowed; shaft thread-shaped, twice as long as the blossom and far surpassing the tips; summit four-cornered, red-brown.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
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1. The Empalement with the peduncle magnified. 2. The Chives and Pointal, detached from the blossom, magnified. 3. The Pointal and Seed-bud, with the summit magnified. 4. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 289]. |