Part 40

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, carinatis, acuminatis.

COROLLA subovata, cernua, carnea, ore contracto, lævissime quadrisido, laciniis erectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ cristatæ, sub-inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen subrotundum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Julii, in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta.

5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, nearly within the blossoms, which are almost egg-shaped, and flesh-coloured; the foot-stalks are very long, and coloured; the leaves grow by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM nearly upright, a foot high, and very much branched; the larger and smaller branches grow zigzag, and spread outward.

LEAVES grow by fours, are blunt, linear, smooth, and furrowed underneath; with short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

The FLOWERS grow at the end of the smaller branches, forming a close bunch; the foot-stalks are very long, and purple, having three floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are egg-shaped, keeled, and pointed.

BLOSSOM nearly egg-shaped, bending downward, and flesh-coloured, the mouth contracted, but slightly cut into four upright segments.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips crested, nearly within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel nearly round. Shaft thread-shaped, 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.