Part 18

POINTAL. Seed-vessel cylinder shape, and hairy. Style thread-shaped, nearly without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till April.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, and Blossom.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. The Chives, and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified.

5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.

ERICA cernua.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; floribus umbellatis, cernuis, secundis, sub-ovatis, pallide-carneis; foliis quaternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis; rami sub-simplices, erecto-patenti.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, subtus sulcata, sub-scabrida; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES in apice ramorem umbellati, cernui; pedunculi longi, colorati, bracteis tribus, linearibus, instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis minutis, subulatis, ciliatis, coloratis.

COROLLA sub-ovata, pallide-carnea; laciniis limbi acuminatis, sub-erectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria apice introrsum declinata. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, fulcatum. Stylus cylindricus, sub-inclusus. Stigma obsolete tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen, Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.