Part 82

CAULIS rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosi, tenuissime scabri, villosi.

FOLIA terna, linearia, arcuata, obtusa, supra sub-scabrida, margine setacea, revoluta; petioli brevissimi.

FLORES in ultimis ramulis terminates, sub-terni, spicati; pedunculi longitudine florum, bracteis tribus, ad basin instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, apice pilosis, adpressis.

COROLLA urceolata, glabra, sub-albida, minuta; laciniæ limbi sub-erectæ, obtusæ.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ inclusæ, ad basin bicornutæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum, sulcatum. Stylus exsertus, longissimus. Stigma maximum, tetragonum, purpureum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi. Februarii, in Aprilem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum, lente auctum.

2. Calyx, et Corolla.

3. Calyx, auctus.

4. Stamina et Pistillum.

5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta.

6. Stamen unum, auctum.

7. Pistillum, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom, the shaft very long and without; flowers grow in long bunches, terminating the small branches by threes; blossoms pitcher-shaped, pale and small; leaves grow by threes, with harsh hair on them; stem weak and thread-shaped.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped, grow zig-zag, are a little rough and hairy.

LEAVES grow by threes, are linear, bowed, blunt, roughish on the upper side, bristly and rolled back at the edge; the foot-stalks very short.

FLOWERS grow mostly by threes at the extremity of the smaller branches, forming a spike; the foot-stalks the length of the flowers, having three floral leaves at the base.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, hairy at the end and pressed to the blossoms.

BLOSSOM pitcher-shape, smooth, whitish and small; the segments of the border are almost upright and blunt.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips within the blossom and two-horned at the base.

POINTAL. Seed-bud nearly globular, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and very long. Summit very large, four-cornered, and purple.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.