Empalement. Cup double, leaflets spathula-shaped, concave, clammy, sawed at the edges, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom egg-shaped, smooth, white at the base, purple at the top; the segments of the mouth halbert-shaped, upright and of a deep purple.
Chives. Threads hair-like, the length of the tube. Tips beardless, without the blossom, linear, of the length of the threads.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, flattened, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit obsolete.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July, till November.
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1. A Flower of the natural size. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Blossom, of the natural size, 4. The same, magnified. 5. The Chives, and Pointal. 6. The Chives detached from the Pointal; magnified. 7. The Pointal. 8. The same, magnified[Pg 125]. |
