Part 26

The BLOSSOM is cylindrically club-shaped, smooth, blood colour, and an inch long; the segments of the mouth are obtuse, and straight.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle; the tips are bearded, and just within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel nearly egg-shaped, furrowed, and downy; Shaft without the blossom; Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till December.

REFERENCE.

1. 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 cubica.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, sub-inclusis; stylus longissimus; corollis sub-campanulatis, purureis, oris laciniis patulis, maximis, ovatis; foliis sub-quaternis, obtusis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, teres, ramosus, fruticosus, pedalis; rami et ramuli filiformes, laxi, erecti.

FOLIA quaterna, sæpe quina, obtusa, reflexa, apice incurvata, glabra, nitida, subtus sulcata; petiolis rubris, adpressis.

FLORES sub-terminales, umbellati, cernui; pedunculi longissimi, angulati, purpurei, foliolis binis, coloratis instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, acuminatis, adpressis, apicibus viridis.

COROLLA globoso-campanulata, purpurea, limbo maximo, expanso; laciniis ovatis, concavis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, longitudine tubi, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ bifidæ, ad basin bicornutæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, corolla duplo longior, purpureus. Stigma concavum, marginatum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Aprili, in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.