Part 50

BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, white, and a little longer than the cup; the segments of the border are blunt, upright and spreading.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, bent inwards at the ends. Tips egg-shaped, brown, crested and within the blossom.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June, till September.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, and Blossom.

2. The Empalement, magnified.

3. The Chives, and Pointal.

4. A Chive, magnified.

5. The Pointal, magnified.

ERICA Massonia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis sub-cylindricis, viscosis, speciosissimis, tricoloratis; foliis subquaternis, pilis longis vestitis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, bipedalis, basi simplicissimus, dein ramosus, rami suberecti, foliis toti tecti.

FOLIA subquaterna, oblonga, serrata, pilis longis vestita, supra plana, subtus sulcata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis.

FLORES subterminales, plures, simplice verticillati, cernuo-patenti, pedunculi pilosi, foliolis tribus subtus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanciolatis, hirsutis, adpressis, apicibus revolutis.

COROLLA subcylindracea, micans, viscosa, rubra, lutea et viridia speciosissime colorata, ore arctato, quadrisido.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, longitudine tubi, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, subexsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti ad Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.