Part 20

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

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

5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom, shaft without; the flowers grow at the end of branches in whorls, club-shaped, curved, and of a scarlet colour; the leaves of the cup are sharp-pointed; the leaves grow by sixes, and are turned inwards.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, of a brownish ash-colour, growing a foot high; branches grow in whorls, upright, and spreading, seldom branching.

LEAVES grow by sixes, turned inwards, sharp-pointed, smooth, and of a bluish green; the leaf-stems pressed to the branches.

FLOWERS grow in close whorls at the top of the branches; the foot-stalks very short, the floral leaves appearing like a second cup.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, skinny at the edges, sharp-pointed, and keel-shaped.

BLOSSOM curved, club-shaped, downy, and of a blood colour; the segments of the mouth are upright.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, the length of the tube. Tips beardless, and just within the blossom.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till December.

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 conspicua.