Part 91

FLOWERS terminal, numerous, upright, level, and in bunches; the footstalks purple, having two small opposite floral leaves at their base.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, erect, keel-shaped, and ciliate.

BLOSSOM of an oblong-ovate form, narrowed toward the top, with a slightly reflexed border, of a whitish purple, smooth, and shining.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a length with the blossomed, fixed into the receptacle. Tips within the blossom small, cleft, and two-horned at their base.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel oblong and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, of an equal length with the threads. Summit nearly four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from April till September.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement with the Blossom.

2. The Empalement and Floral-leaf magnified.

3. The Chives and Pointal.

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

5. The Shaft, and its Summit magnified.

ERICA verticillata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; corollis pollicaribus, cernuis, ventricoso-cylindracis, saturate rubris, pedunculis longissimis; foliis quaternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, bipedalis, basi simplicissimus, rami verticillati, subsimplices, erecto-patentes.

FOLIA quaterna, glabra, lineari, acuta, subtus sulcata, recta.

FLORES in apicibus ramorum verticillati, nutantes, conferti; pedunculi longissimi, bracteis tribus ad basin instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, acuminatis, apice dilute rubris, basi viridis.

COROLLA ventricoso-cylindrica, pollicaris, ad basin-tetragona, profunde costata; ore arctata, tenuissime laciniata; saturate rubentia.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen globosum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis longitudine corollæ. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Julii, in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.