Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers grow sideways, mostly by threes, and showy. Blossom nearly round, very glutinous and shining, of a gold colour, with the border of a deep green colour: segments upright. Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath. Stem upright, a foot or more high. The smaller branches grow by threes in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from January till May.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, highly magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, natural size. |
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO THE
FIGURES IN VOL. V.
| [201.] | Erica | Andromedæflora alba. |
| [202.] | argentiflora. | |
| [203.] | aristata minor. | |
| [204.] | aurea Var. flore pallido. | |
| [205.] | Bandonia. | |
| [206.] | Broadleyana. | |
| [207.] | cerinthoides. | |
| [208.] | clavata. | |
| [209.] | colorans. | |
| [210.] | Coventrya. | |
| [211.] | curviflora rubra. | |
| [212.] | densa. | |
| [213.] | dumosa. | |
| [214.] | emarginata. | |
| [215.] | exsurgens longiflora. | |
| [216.] | exudans. | |
| [217.] | formosa bicolor. | |
| [218.] | infundibuliformis. | |
| [219.] | Irbyana. | |
| [220.] | jasminiflora. | |
| [221.] | lævis. | |
| [222.] | longiflora. | |
| [223.] | magnifica. | |
| [224.] | metulæflora. | |
| [225.] | mucronata. | |
| [226.] | moschata. | |
| [227.] | Nivenia longiflora. | |
| [228.] | Patersonia major. | |
| [229.] | pendunculata. | |
| [230.] | perspicua. | |
| [231.] | prægnans. | |
| [232.] | præstans. | |
| [233.] | primuloides. | |
| [234.] | pumila. | |
| [235.] | regerminans. | |
| [236.] | rugosa. | |
| [237.] | rupestris rubra. | |
| [238.] | Savilea. | |
| [239.] | Shannonea. | |
| [240.] | splendens. | |
| [241.] | sulphurea. | |
| [242.] | Swainsonia. | |
| [243.] | taxifolia major. | |
| [244.] | Thunbergia. | |
| [245.] | triflora. | |
| [246.] | vestita carnea. | |
| [247.] | vestita lutea. | |
| [248.] | vernix longiflora. | |
| [249.] | versicolor longiflora. | |
| [250.] | vernix. |