Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, concave, blunt, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, curved, downy, very large, orange colour; segments of the mouth rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom, curved.
Pointal. Seed-bud top-shaped, furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft without the blossom, twisted at the end. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July, till September.
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1. The Empalement, magnified. 2. The Chives, and Pointal. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 4. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 65] |
