Part 80

LEAVES grow by threes, are linear, arched, crowded together, nearly three-sided, reflexed, sharp-pointed, and on very short footstalks.

FLOWERS grow by threes, at the end of the shorter branches hanging down.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the outer three-leaved, the leaflets of a broad egg-shape, skinny, pressed to the inner cup, and tiled; the inner four-leaved, the leaflets larger.

BLOSSOM conical, twice the length of the cup, and pale green; the segments of the border are blunt, and straight.

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

POINTAL. Seed-bud conical. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom, and something longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers in the month of April.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. The Blossom.

4. The Chives and Pointal.

5. A Chive magnified.

6. The Pointal magnified.

ERICA serratifolia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis sub-exsertis, corollis sub-cylindricis, luteo-aurantiis, sub-pollicaribus; foliis quaternis, rigidis, acutis, serratis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, rigidus, pedalis, ramosus; ramuli frequentissimi, breves.

FOLIA quaterna, rigida, serrata, acuta, nitida, trigona, patentia, apice incurvata; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES terminales, in apicibus ramulorum bini vel terni, sub-cernui; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, serratis, reflexis.

COROLLA sub-pollicaria, sub-cylindrica, luteo-aurantia, apice paulo contracta; oris laciniis reflexis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ sub-exsertæ, muticæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen cylindricum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Decembrem.