Chives. Five threads, awl-shaped, the length of the tube, fixed into the claws of the blossom. Tips simple.
Pointal. Seed-buds five, oblong, pointed, ending in awl-shaped shafts, the length of the chives. Summits blunt.
Seed-vessel. Five capsules, oblong, pointed, upright, pressed together, and opening inwards along the seam.
Seeds, many, small.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Crassula foliis oppositis, amplexicaulibus, ciliatis, linearibus; floribus capitatis, odoratissimis, luteis.
Crassula with opposite leaves that embrace the stem, fringed and linear; the flowers grow in bunches, are sweet-scented and yellow.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Blossom cut open to shew the insertion of the threads.