Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, villose, and furnished with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till October.
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1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal. [Pg 146]3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
