Part 77

HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom, and very long; blossom club-shaped, turned inwards and orange coloured; segments blunt, turned inwards; flowers grow by threes at the ends of the branches; cup double, tiled; leaves grow by threes, are curved, and reflexed; the branches are quite covered with little branches.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM sturdy, upright, grows a foot high; branches few, covered by little branches which are crowded together.

LEAVES grow by threes, linear, arched, crowded, nearly three-sided, reflexed, sharp-pointed, very small foot-stalks.

FLOWERS grow by threes at the end of the small branches, hanging down; very short, naked, foot-stalks.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double, the outer three-leaved, leaflets broad egg-shaped and skinny, pressed to the stem, tiled; the inner four-leaved, with larger leaflets.

BLOSSOM club-shaped, turned inwards, orange colour, and twice the length of the cup; the segments of the mouth blunt and turned inwards.

CHIVES. Eight linear, flat threads; tips beardless, without the blossom, very long, linear, and tapered into the threads.

POINTAL. Seed-bud oval, appearing cut off at the end and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit slightly four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July, till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement, magnified.

2. A Flower.

3. The Chives, and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal.

5. A Tip, magnified.

6. The Summit, magnified.

7. The Seed-bud, magnified.

ERICA Sebana lutea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, exsertis, longissimis; corolla conica, lutea; laciniis obtusis, erectis; floribus ternis, terminalibus, dependentibus; calyx duplex, imbricatus; foliis ternis, confertissimis, reflexis, arcuatis; caulis simplex, elongatus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, bipedalis, laxus; rami pauci, ramulis brevissimis tecti.

FOLIA terna, linearia, arcuata; conferta, subtrigona, reflexa, apice acuta, brevissime petiolata.

FLORES terni in apice ramulorum penduli; pedunculis brevissimis.

CALYX. Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, membranaceis, adpressis, imbricatis; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis majoribus.

COROLLA conica, calyce duplo longior, lutea; laciniis limbi obtusis, erectis.