Part 11

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and black.

POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shape, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from February, till June.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf, magnified.

2. The Empalement.

3. The Empalement, magnified.

4. The Blossom.

5. The Blossom, magnified.

6. The Chives, and Pointal.

7. The Chives, detached from the Pointal.

8. A Chive, magnified.

9. The Pointal, magnified.

ERICA caffra.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis, stylo exserto; corollis campanulatis, albidis; floribus umbellatis, secundis, cernuis, odoratissimis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, scabridis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fructicosus, pedalis, rami et ramuli erecti, cinereo-tomentosi, rigidi.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, subciliata, scabrida, patentia; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES in ramis supremis racemosi, secundi, cernui, umbellati; pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus minutis instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis acuminatis, brevissimis, glabris, adpressis,

COROLLA campanulata, minuta, odoratissima, alba; laciniis erectis, apicibus parum reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, apice curvata. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum, sulcatum. Stylus exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Octobris, in Februarium.

REFERENTIA.