Leaves grow opposite and alternate, are short, blunt-ended, and pressed to the branches, concave on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath, shining, and with short footstalks.
Flowers are numerous, terminating the smaller branches mostly by twos: peduncles very short, with two floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved: the leaflets are pointedly oval, white, and smooth.
Blossom white and pitcher-shaped, narrowed at the mouth, with a four-lobed spreading border.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blossom, and small.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and green. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till December.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Empalement. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. [Pg 100]4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |