Part 78

STAMINA. Filamenta octo, linearia, plana. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ, lineares, longissimæ, attenuata in filamenta.

PISTILLUM. Germen ovale, apice truncatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, staminibus paulo longior. Stigma obsoletum, virescens.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti, in Januarium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a pistillo diducta.

5. Anthera una, lente aucta.

6. Pistillum, magnitudine naturali, Stigma dilatatum.

7. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom and very long; blossom conical, and yellow; segments of the border upright; flowers grow by threes, terminating the branches, hanging down; empalement double, tiled; leaves grow by threes, very crowded, are bent back and crooked; stem simple, lengthened out.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, grows two feet high, and weak; larger branches few, covered with numerous shorter ones.

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

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

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

BLOSSOM conical, twice the length of the cup, yellow; the segments of the border blunt and upright.

CHIVES. Eight linear threads, flat. Tips beardless, without the blossom, linear, very long, tapered into the threads.

POINTAL. Seed-bud oval, appearing cut off at the end, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, a little longer than the chives. Summit obsolete, and greenish.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till January.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Chives, and Pointal.