Pistillum. Germen inferum. Stylus filiformis, situ et longitudine stamimun superiorum. Stigma trifidum, capillare, reflexum.
Pericarpium. Capsula subrotunda, trilocularis, trivalvis.
Semina plura, triangularia.
Empalement. Sheath of two valves, alternate, dividing the flowers, and abiding.
Blossom. One petal, widening in the tube, flattened at the mouth, and gaping.
Chives. Three threads, long, thin, and placed under the upper lip of the blossom. Tips sharp.
Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-shaped, in the same place, and of the same length of the upper chives. Summit cut into three hair-like divisions, which are bent back.
Seed-vessel. Capsule nearly round, three cells, three valves.
Seeds many, triangular.
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