Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 3. Flower of a white variety. 4. Flower of a striped variety. |
Our figure represents a plant raised from seed in 1807 in the collection of the Hon. W. Irby, where we also found, at the same time, a variation with white flowers; and in the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes this year, 1811, observed another variety, the blossoms of which were elegantly striped in the tube: we have therefore added a flower of each variety to our dissections, as all the three plants were so very much like each other in every other particular, that we could not distinguish one from the other when out of bloom.[Pg 103]
