Part 99

STEM shrubby, grows two feet high, and upright; the larger and smaller branches are simple, long, loose and clammy at the ends.

LEAVES grow by fours, are linear, pointed, and smooth, the younger ones are clammy at the ends of the branches; foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS grow in spikes about the middle of the branches, spreading out, and growing from the foot-stalks of the leaves; the foot-stalks very short.

EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the leaves unequal, clammy and pressed to the blossom, with small glands on their margins.

BLOSSOM bell shaped, very clammy, purple, half way cleft into four, the segments bent back.

CHIVES. Eight linear threads. Tips beardless and within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-bud globular. Shaft within the blossom and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April, till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.

2. The Empalement, magnified.

3. The Blossom.

4. The Chives, and Pointal.

5. The Chives detached from the Pointal.

6. A Chive, magnified.

7. The Shaft and Summit, magnified.

ERICA Walkeria.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis, foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris; floribus sessilibus, erectis, quaternis, terminalibus; calycis foliola margine membranacea, serrato-lacera.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, spithamæus, erectus, ramosus; ramuli frequentissimi, suberecti.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, crassiuscula, nitida, patentia; petiolis brevissimis.

FLORES sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni, terminales; fere pedunculati.

CALYX. Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyllum, foliolis subulatis, marginibus membranaceis, serrato-laceris; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis longioribus, apicibus carneis, adpressis.

COROLLA ventricosa, pellucida, ore arctata, extus pallide sanguinea, intus alba; laciniis sub-cordatis, expansis, maximis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

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