Part 64

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, plus quam bipedalis, robustus; rami verticillati, erecto-patentes, raro ramulosi, cauli similes.

FOLIA sena, linearia, glabra, patentia, longissima, petiolis adpressis.

FLORES in medio ramorum verticillati, horizontales, pollicares; pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, ad basin latioribus, glabris, adpressis.

COROLLA tubuloso-clavata, obtusa, sub-albida; laciniis reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, corolla breviora. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum; apice pilosum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma peltatum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Augusti, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium, lente auctum.

2. Calyx et Corolla.

3. Calyx, auctus.

4. Stamina, et Pistillum.

5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta.

6. Pistillum, stigma auctum.

7. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are tubularly club-shaped, and nearly white; flowers grow from the lower part of the leaves close to the stem in whorls, are an inch long; leaves grow mostly by sixes, are linear and smooth, stiff, and long.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, grows more than two feet high and very stout; the branches grow in whorls, spreading and upright, seldom breaking into smaller branches, and like the stem.

LEAVES grow by sixes, are linear, smooth, spread outward, and very long, the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in length; the foot-stalks very short, with three floral leaves on them.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets are awl-shaped, broadest at the base, smooth, and pressed to the blossom.

BLOSSOM tubularly club-shaped, blunt ended, and nearly white; the segments of the border are reflexed.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads shorter than the blossom. Tips beardless and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed; hairy on the upper part, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit shield-shaped.