ERIGA curv iflora, rubra.
CHARACTER SPECIEICUS.
Eft IC i , anllieris mnficis, sub-exertis : floribus tubulosis,
curvatis : pcdunrulis brevissimis, Folia
Cuaterna, Gaulis fruticosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
C A U L I S pedaüs et ultra. Rami et ramuli numerosi,
erecto-patentes.
F O L I A quatcrna, glabra, linearía, obtusa.
FLORES ramiilos terminant, solítarii, patentes,
racemum sparsum formantes. Pedunculi brevissimi,
bracteis tribus instructí.
C A L V X tetraphyllus : foliolis ad basin ovatis,
dentatis, ápice suhulatis.
COROLLA cúrvala, chivata, pol!¡caris, rubra,
limbo albicante : laciniis expansis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antberoe
mutica:, inclusa;.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen tianeforme, sulcatum.
Stylus filifonuis, exertus. Stigma concavum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a niense Julii in Januarium.
REPERENTIA.
J. Folii inferior pars lento aucta.
2. Calyx lente auctns.
3. Corolla.
4. Stamina et Pi-tillum. anthera una lente
aucta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
H E A T H , with beardless tips just without the blossom.
Flowers tubular, and curved. Footstalks
very short. Leaves by fours. Stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot or more high. The large and
small branches are numerous, erect, and spreading.
LEAVES by fours, smooth, linear, and bluntended.
FLOWERS terminate the branches singly,
spreading out, and forming a scattered spike.
Footstalks very short, and furnished with three
floral leaves.
EMFALEMENT four-leaved: the leaflets at the
base are ovate, toothed, and awl-shaped at the
end.
BLOSSOM curved, club-shaped, an inch long,
red, with a whitish border : segments expanded.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless,
and within the blossom.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed.
Shaft thread-shaped, without. Summit
hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope
Flowers from July till January.
REI'ttJiENCE.
1. A Leaf shown from the under side magnified.
2. The Empalenient magnified.
3. A Blossom.
4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
G. Seed-bud magnified.