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BLOSSOM bell-shaped, white; the segments of the mouth are rolled back, and larger than the tube.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and black.

POINTAL. Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, slightly furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit shield-shaped, almost four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April, till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, and Blossom.

2. The Empalement, magnified.

3. The Chives, and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one Tip magnified.

5. The Pointal, magnified.

ERICA obliqua.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; stylo sub-exserto; corollis ovatis, laciniis ovalibus, maximis, erectis; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus, pedunculis pollicaribus; foliis oblique sparsis, truncatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis; rami simplices, longi, filiformes.

FOLIA sparsa, sæpe vero quaterna, linearia, arcuata, margine glanduloso-denticulata, glabra, truncata, petiolis tenuissimis.

FLORES numerosi, sub apice ramorum umbellati; pedunculi flore triplo longiores, colorati, viscidi, bracteis tribus linearibus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis minutis, linearibus, viscosis, adpressis.

COROLLA sub-globosa, purpurea, magnitudine pisi; laciniis limbi maximis, erectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, plana, linearia, apice incurvata; antheræ ad basin bicornutæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen tiarae-forme, sulcatum; glandulæ octo ad basin germinis; stylus cylindricus, sub-exsertus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Flos.

3. Calyx lente auctus.