Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, shining, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath; footstalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches, mostly by fours, and nodding; footstalks long, glandular, and furnished with three lance-shaped glandular floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, channelled, and glandular.
Blossom of an inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, white, and transparent; the segments of the border are half round, and nearly upright.
Chives. Eight capillary threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from November till June.
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1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives detached, one tip magnified. [Pg 110]4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |