Part 62

FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches about the middle of the larger ones, by twos and threes, and are bent inwards; the foot-stalks are very short, having three floral leaves, which seem to form part of the cup.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double, and tiled, the inner four-leaved, the outer three-leaved, which are oval, pointed, hollow, smooth, and yellow.

BLOSSOM club-shaped, curved, yellow, smooth, an inch long, swelled at the base, which is divided into four; the segments of the mouth are bent inwards, and pressed to the filaments.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle; tips beardless, very long, and without the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Empalement magnified.

4. The Chives and Pointal.

5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified.

6. The Shaft and Summit magnified.

ERICA physodes.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; corollis ovatis, inflatis, glabris, viscosis, crystallinis, albis; foliis quaternis, marginibus glandulosis, obtusis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus; rami erecti, ramulosi.

FOLIA quaterna, obtusa, lato-linearia, carinata, curvata, margine glandulosa, viscosa, patentia.

FLORES umbellati, sub-quaterni, cernui, ad apices ramulorum; pedunculi mediocres, bracteis minutis, distantibus.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, brevissimis, adpressis, viscosis.

COROLLA ovata, alba, crystallina, magnitudine pisi; laciniis acuminatis, erectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen globosum, sulcatum. Stylus sub-inclusus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Februario in Julium.

REFERENTIA.