Empalement. Cup four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, carinated, sharp-pointed, and viscous.
Blossom white, flesh-coloured at the base, and extremely glutinous, an inch long, and shining, cylindrical on the upper part, and swelled out at the base, narrowed at the mouth, with the segments spreading, and nearly egg-shaped.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, very slender and twisted: tips two-horned at the base, pointed at the end, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The same shown from the under side, cut in two, and magnified. 3. The Empalement and floral leaves. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. [Pg 68]5. Pointal and Seed-bud, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. |
