Leaves by fours, smooth, blunt, furrowed beneath, and slightly sawed at the edges.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of three to six in each umbel, nodding; the footstalks are purple, having three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets scaly, egg-shaped, keeled, and of a whitish colour.
Blossom globular, and purple; the segments are equal and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed to the receptacle; tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, and within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till July.
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1. The Empalement and Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. [Pg 130]6. Seed-bud magnified. 7. A branch with the Involucrum of the flowers. |