Part 100

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Februarii in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus.

2. Corolla.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Stamen unum lente auctum.

5. Pistillum lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom; leaves grow by fours, linear, and smooth; flowers sit close upon the ends of the branches, upright, and by fours; the leaves of the cup are skinny at the edge, and sawed as if torn.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching; smaller branches numerous, and nearly upright.

LEAVES grow by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, shining, and spreading out; with very short footstalks.

FLOWERS sit close in upright bunches, by fours, on the ends of the branches; scarce any footstalks.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double, the outer three-leaved, which are awl-shaped, having the edges skinny, and sawed as if torn; the inner has four leaves, which are longer than the others; the points flesh-coloured, and pressed to the blossom.

BLOSSOM bellied out, and pellucid, the mouth narrowed, without a pale red, white within; the segments nearly heart-shaped, spreading, and very large.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, slightly furrowed. Shaft just without the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from February till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement magnified.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal.

4. The Chive magnified.

5. The Pointal magnified.

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