Part 13

FOLIA terna, lanceolata, supra concava, adpressa, glabra; petiolis brevissimis.

FLORES plures, in ultimis ramulis terminales, umbellati; pedunculis carneis, longissimis, bracteis tribus coloratis instructis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, carneis, corolla longiora.

COROLLA minuta, urceoli-formis, apice dilute carnea, ad basi virescens; oris laciniis reflexis, saturate carneis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum. Stylus sub-exsertus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Septembri, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Corolla.

3. Calyx, lente auctus.

4. Stamina, et Pistillum.

5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta.

6. Stylus, et Stigma lente, aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; the leaves grow by threes; the branches are thread-shaped, the blossoms small and pitcher-shaped; the leaves of the cup are longer than the flower, the foot-stalks very long.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM thread-shaped, grows half a foot high, upright, and very much branched.

The LEAVES grow by threes, are lance-shaped, concave on the upper surface, pressed to the stem, and smooth, having very short foot-stalks.

The FLOWERS are numerous, and terminate the smaller branches in bunches; the foot-stalks are very long, flesh coloured, with three coloured floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are of a broad oval form, flesh coloured, and longer than the blossom.

The BLOSSOM is small, of a pitcher-shape, light flesh colour at the end, greenish at the base; the segments of the mouth are bent back, and deep flesh coloured.

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

POINTAL. Seed-vessel nearly globular; the shaft thread-shaped, partly out of the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from September, till December.

REFERENCE.