Part 56

CALYX. Perianthium duplex; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis erectis, ovatis, carinatis; exterius triphyllum, priori incumbens.

COROLLA oblongo-ovata, obtuse tetragona, summa parte arctata, limbo quadrilobo, laciniis æqualibus revolutis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, stylo subæqualia, apice torto, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, bifidæ, dorsales.

PISTILLUM. Germen obovatum, fulcatum sulcis octo. Stylus linearis, erectus, corollas sub-æqualis. Stigma subtetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Martio ad Julium.

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 beardless tips within the blossom, which is oblong-egg-shaped, and bluntly four-edged; leaves growing by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, grows a foot and a half high, cylindrical, undivided at the base, afterwards branching.

LEAVES growing by fours, linear, pointed, between upright and spreading, smooth and shining, of a light green, with short leaf-stems pressed to the branches.

FLOWERS yellowish, sweet-scented, mostly four together, terminating the branches; having very short footstalks.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the inner one has four leaves, which are erect, ovate, and keel-shaped; the outer has three leaves, and rests on the former.

The BLOSSOM oblong-egg-shaped, bluntly four-edged, contracted at the mouth, which is terminated by a four-lobed border, whose segments are equal, and rolled back.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a length with the pointal, crooked at their upper part, and fixed in the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blossom, cleft, and fixed to the threads at their back.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel inversely egg-shaped, furrowed with eight channels. Shaft linear, erect, nearly of a length with the blossom. Summit nearly four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from March till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. The Chives and Pointal.