Empalement four-leaved: leaflets of a yellowish green, lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom trumpet-shaped, and very slender; the segments of the border are sharp-pointed, spreading, and very white; the tube is of a transparent white.
Chives. Eight hair-like 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 July till December.
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1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. [Pg 138]4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
