Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom globular, smooth, and white; segments of the border round, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, just without the blossom, and black.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy above, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till June.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The under side of the same magnified. 3. The Empalement and Blossom. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. A Chive magnified. [Pg 36]6. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud magnified. |
