Empalement four-leaved. The leaflets are ovate at the base, with a mucronated point, coloured, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, flesh-coloured: the segments of the border are equal, and between erect and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till August.
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1. A Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. A Chive magnified. [Pg 88]5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. |
