Empalement. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets broadly egg-shaped, furrowed, and covered with long white hairs: the edges of the cup are of a bright green colour.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, hairy, and white; the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till June.
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1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 4. A Flower. [Pg 148]5. The Empalement magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. |
