Part 85

PISTILLUM. Germen subrotundum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Novembri in Aprilem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.

2. Calyx et Bractea lente aucta.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta.

5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossoms; which are numerous, on a close spike, nearly terminating the branches; leaves growing mostly by sixes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, growing a foot high, upright, with numerous, crowded, undivided, and ascending branches.

LEAVES growing mostly by sixes, sharp-pointed, spreading, and smooth, channelled underneath, and pressed to the stem by short foot-stalks.

FLOWERS numerous, growing nearly at the end of branches, in hard close-set spikes; the lower part of a light yellow, the extremity of a light green.

EMPALEMENT. Cup permanent, double; the outer many-leaved, unequal, and spear-shaped; the inner four-leaved, which are yellow, crooked, and spatula-shaped; their upper part hard, inflated, sharp-pointed, and tending to each other.

BLOSSOM somewhat cylindrical, with a tapered base; the mouth blunt, and divided into a four-cleft, equal border, whose segments tend to each other.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a length with the blossom, fixed into the receptacle. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel roundish. Shaft thread-shaped, and longer than the threads. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from November till April.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement with the Blossom.

2. The Empalement and Floral-leaves magnified.

3. The Chives and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

ERICA spuria.