Part 75

FOLIA quaterna, retorta, seta terminali aristata, margine ciliata, glabra, supra plana, subtus sulcata; petioli brevissimi, adpressi.

FLORES plures, subterminales, sæpe quatuor, verticillati, viscosi; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis aristatis, apice ciliatis, subovatis, viscosis, adpressis.

COROLLA, basi inflata, apice attenuata, ima parte carnea, summa saturate purpurea, ore arctata, laciniis ovatis, reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ inclusæ, villoso-muticæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum; stylus exsertus, purpureus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii, in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum lente auctum.

2. Calyx, et Corolla.

3. Calyx, lente auctus.

4. Stamina, et Pistillum.

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

6. Stylus, et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, are rolled back, having bristles at their points, and fringed at their edges; the flowers grow in bunches, are clammy, flesh coloured, and flask-shaped.

DESCRIPTION.

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

The LEAVES grow by fours, are rolled back, terminating with an awn-like bristle, fringed at the edges, smooth, flat on the upper and furrowed on the under part, having short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

The FLOWERS are numerous, nearly terminal, mostly by fours, in whorls, and clammy; the foot-stalks are long, having three floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are each terminated by a bristle, the ends fringed, nearly oval, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.

The BLOSSOM is swelled out at the base, and tapers to the point, the lower part is of a flesh colour, the upper deep purple, straightened at the mouth, whose segments are egg-shaped, and bent back.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. The tips are within the blossom, beardless, and covered with hairs.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel club-shaped; shaft without the blossom, and purple; summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July, till October.

REFERENCE.