Part 30

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips nearly oblong, divided, bearded, and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel oblong. Shaft thread-shaped, longer than the blossom, the point bending. The Summit nearly four-cornered, and greenish.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Time of flowering from November till April.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement with the 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 droseroides.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; corolla ventricosa, ore obliqua, purpurea; pedunculis coloratis, longissimis; foliis alternis, sparsis, obtusis, pilis glandulosis micantibus hirtis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, spithameus; rami et ramuli filiformes, sparsi, erecto-patentes, virgati.

FOLIA alterna, sparsa, linearia, obtusa, apice reflexa, pilis glandulosis hirta.

FLORES terminales, sub-umbellati, sub-erecti; pedunculi filiformes, foliis duplo longiores; bracteæ minutæ, coloratæ.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis sub-ovatis, viscosis, acuminatis, coloratis, apicibus reflexis.

COROLLA ventricosa, purpurea, costata, pubescens, ore obliqua, arctata, profunde sanguinea; laciniis cordatis, expansis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, torta, receptaculo inserta; antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, purpureus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ.