Part 97

FOLIA sena, linearia, tremula, glabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petiolos capillares semiunguiculares.

FLORES in ramulis mediis conferti, numerosi, erecto-patentes, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus linearibus adpressis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis adpressis glabris.

COROLLA clavata, pollicaris, coccinea, oris laciniis revolutis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheris muticis, sub-exsertis.

PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spæi.

Floret a mense Augusto in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucti.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips just without the blossom; the leaves grow by sixes, are tremulous, linear, and taper into hair-like foot-stalks; the blossoms are club-shaped, an inch long, and deep scarlet.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, grows a foot and a half high, branching but little; the smaller branches are simple, and covered with leaves.

LEAVES grow by sixes, are linear, tremulous, smooth, furrowed underneath, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks half an inch long.

FLOWERS are clustered together about the middle of the branches, are numerous, spreading upwards, having short foot-stalks, with three linear floral leaves pressed to the cup.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, pressed to the blossom, and smooth.

BLOSSOM club-shaped, an inch long, and of a deep scarlet colour; the segments of the mouth are rolled back.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle; tips beardless, and just without the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.