Leaves grow by sixes, linear, close, hairy, blunt and horizontal; with the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers in very close spikes in the middle of the large and small branches, standing out horizontally, with very short foot-stalks, having three floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets linear, hairy, distant, like the leaves but smaller.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, nearly white, and very sweet; segments very large, blunt, spreading.
Chives. Threads eight hair-like. Tips crested, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till August.
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1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives very much magnified. 6. The Pointal, the summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 69] |