Part 42

EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, clammy, and purple.

BLOSSOM, clammy, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and pinched in at the mouth; the segments spreading, nearly egg-shaped and very large.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips two horned at the base, tapered to the points and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July, till November.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf, magnified.

2. The Empalement, magnified.

3. The Empalement, and Blossom.

4. The Chives, and Pointal.

5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

ERICA lateralis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris cristatis, inclulis; corolla purpurea, urceolato-campanulata, ad basin plana; pedunculis longissimis; floribus umbellatis, ternminalibus, fecundis, cernuis; foliis quaternis, obtusis, glaberrimis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis; rami sub-simplices, virgati, filiformes.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, sub-trigona, crassiuscula, brevissime petiolata, petiolis adpressis.

FLORES ad apices ramorum ramulorumque umbellati, cernui, secundi, purpurei; pedunculi florum triplo longitudine colorati, bracteis tribus minutis instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis minutis, adpressis, ciliatis, subulatis.

COROLLA sub-campanulata ad basin plana, purpurea; laciniis limbi obtusis, suberectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheras cristatæ, atro-purpureæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus staminibus longior, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum, virescens.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.