Part 4

The FLOWERS grow at the summit of the branches, three in a bunch, and upright; the foot-stalks are very long, and purple, having three coloured floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are spathula-shaped, thick, clammy, blunt at their ends, and hollow, without.

The BLOSSOM is an inch and a half long, channelled, and linear, swelled at the end, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments of the border are very large, and expanded; of a light flesh colour on the outside, white within.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads twirled; tips two horned at their base, the points horned, and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel oblong, and furrowed; the shaft straight, thread-shaped, purple, and without the blossom; summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from 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 albens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis ventricosis, axillaribus, solitariis, sub-albidis; foliis ternis, trigonis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, erectus, ramosus, gracilis; rami simplices.

FOLIA terna, trigona, linearia, acuta, glabra, subtus tenuissime sulcata, erecta; petiolis adpressis.

FLORES in axillis foliorum solitarii, cernui, sub-albicantes; pedunculis curvatis, albidis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis coloratis, acuminatis, adpressis.

COBOLLA ventricosa, ore arctata; limbo quadrilobo, laciniis æqualibus, acuminatis, revolutis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, curvata, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, glabrum. Stylus linearis, curvatus, sub-exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Aprili, in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.