Part 31

5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom, which is big-bellied, oblique-mouthed, and purple; the foot-stalks are coloured, and very long; leaves grow alternate, scattered, blunt, and thick with shining glandular hairs.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, about a span high; the larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped, scattered, upright, spreading, and twiggy.

LEAVES grow alternate, scattered, linear, blunt, the end bent back, and thick with glandular hairs.

FLOWERS are terminal, nearly in bunches, almost upright; the foot-stalks are thread-shaped, and twice as long as the leaves; the floral leaves are small, and coloured.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; leaves nearly egg-shaped, clammy, pointed, coloured, and bent outward at the top.

BLOSSOM big-bellied, purple, ribbed, and downy, with the mouth oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour; the segments are heart-shaped, and spreading.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, which are twisted, and fixed into the receptacle; the tips are crested, and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and purple. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till October.

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 exsurgens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, exsertis; foliis quaternis, mucronatis, apicibus reflexis; corollis clavato-cylindraceis, verticillatis, aurantiis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, erectus, basi simplicissimus; rami verticillati, simplices, erecti.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, apice reflexa, mucronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata, unguicularia, petiolis adpressis.

FLORES in medio ramorum verticillati, recti; verticilli alter alteri exsurgentes; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, viscosis, adpressis.

COROLLA clavato-cylindrica, pollicaria, aurantia; ore limbo quadrilobo revoluto, laciniis superioribus longioribus.