Part 44

CAULIS laxus, erectus, scaber, quatuor vel quinque pedalis; rami laxi, simplices, longi.

FOLIA sena, rigida, obtusa, subtus sulcata, linearia, crassa, petiolis adpressis.

FLORES in ramulis mediis verticillati, spicam formantes, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus ad basin calycis instructis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, concavis, longitudine pedunculi.

COROLLA sub-pollicaris, quadrata, costata, luteo-aurantia, laciniis dentatis, reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheræ muticæ, subinclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen cylindricum, sulcatum; stylus filiformis, exsertus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Januarium.

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 aucti.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are ribbed, four-sided, not quite an inch long, and of a yellowish-orange colour; grows four or five feet high; the leaves grow by sixes, are large, and stiff.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM supple, upright and rough, four or five feet high; the branches are loose, simple and long.

LEAVES grow by sixes, are harsh, blunt, furrowed underneath, linear, and thick, having the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS grow in whorls, about the middle of the smaller branches, forming a spike, with short foot-stalks, with three floral leaves close to the cup.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, concave, and the length of the foot-stalk.

BLOSSOM near an inch long, four-sided, ribbed, of a yellowish-orange colour; the segments of the mouth are notched, and bent backward.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle; the tips beardless, and just within the. blossom.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till January.

REFERENCE.