Empalement. Cup four-leaved: leaflets ovate, viscous, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, large, white, viscous, shining, and honey-scented: segments rounded, and reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with eight glands at the base of the seed-bud. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
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1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement. [Pg 98]3. Chives and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
