Part 36

FLORES in apicibus ramorum, verticillato-conferti, horizontales; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus calyci adpressis.

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

COROLLA cylindrica, pollicaria, pallido-lutea, glutinosissima, nitida, oris laciniis parum reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

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

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Septembri in Martium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

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

5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are extremely clammy, in whorls, pressed together, of a straw colour, and an inch long; leaves by sixes, shining.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM two feet high, and upright. Large branches simple, long, and seldom branching.

LEAVES by sixes, linear, shining, pointed, smooth, slightly furrowed, and spreading. Foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

FLOWERS grow at the summit of the branches, pressed together in whorls, and horizontal; foot-stalks short, having three floral leaves pressed to the cup.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, with spear-shaped clammy leaflets, pressed to the blossom.

BLOSSOM cylindrical, an inch long, of a pale yellow, very clammy, shining, with the segments of the mouth slightly reflexed.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. The tips beardless, within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed, and hairy at the top. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from September till March.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Empalement magnified.