Part 6

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus; rami flexuosi, filiformes.

FOLIA quaterna, trigona, ciliata, retorta, mucronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata; petioli brevissimi, adpressi.

FLORES umbellati, sæpe quatuor, viscosi, terminales; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus spathulatis instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis spathulatis, margine ciliatis, viscosis, adpressis.

COROLLA basi inflata, apice attenuata, longitudinaliter striata, sub-sesquipollicaria, ore arctata, saturate purpurea; laciniis ovatis, expansis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ inclusæ, bifidæ, basi bicornes.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus exsertus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum, virescens.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum lente auctum.

2. Calyx et Corolla.

3. Calyx lente auctus.

4. Stamina et Pistillum.

5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

6. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned at their base, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, and are rolled back; the flowers are clammy, grow in bunches, are flask-shaped, striped, and nearly an inch and a half long.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, grows about a foot high, and branching; the branches are crooked, and thread-shaped.

LEAVES grow by fours, are three-sided, fringed, rolled back, sharp-pointed, smooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface; with short footstalks, pressed to the branches.

FLOWERS grow in bunches, mostly of four, are clammy, and terminate the branches; the fruit-stalks are long, having three spathula-shaped floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are spathula-shaped, fringed at the edges, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.

BLOSSOM swelled at the base, and tapering to the top, striped longitudinally, nearly an inch and a half long, straightened at the mouth, which is of a deep purple; the segments egg-shaped, and spreading.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips within the blossom, are cleft in two, and two-horned at their base.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered, and green.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till October.