FLOWERS grow at the extremity of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. The footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three small floral leaves pressed to them. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets broadly egg-shaped, furrowed, and covered with long white hairs: the edges of the cup are of a bright green colour. BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, hairy, and white; the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and without the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from February till June. REFERENCE. 1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 4. A Flower. 5. The Empalement magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE FIGURES IN VOL. III. 145. Erica acuminata. 146. ---- Andromedæflora. 147. ---- aristata. 148. ---- aspera. 149. ---- aurea, _Var. flore pallido_. 150. ---- australis. 151. ---- Banksia, _purpurea_. 152. ---- blanda. 153. ---- Blandfordia. 154. ---- Broadleyana. 155. ---- calycina, _major_. 156. ---- calycina, _minor_. 157. ---- canaliculata. 158. ---- canaliculata, _minor_. 159. ---- clavata. 160. ---- cordata. 161. ---- curviflora, _rubra_. 162. ---- decora. 163. ---- densa. 164. ---- Echiflora. 165. ---- elegans. 166. ---- emarginata. 167. ---- erubescens. 168. ---- ferruginea. 169. ---- fimbriata. 170. ---- globosa. 171. ---- glutinosa, _minor_. 172. ---- Hibbertia. 173. ---- hirta, _viridiflora_. 174. ---- hyacinthoides. 175. ---- incurva. 176. ---- Irbyana. 177. ---- lachnæa. 178. ---- lachnæa, _purpurea_. 179. ---- lanata. 180. ---- lanuginosa. 181. ---- laxa. 182. ---- lævis. 183. ---- longiflora. 184. ---- mammosa, _minor_. 185. ---- metulæflora. 186. ---- mucronata. 187. ---- mutabilis. 188. ---- nitida. 189. ---- Nivenia, _longiflora_. 190. ---- obbata, _umbellata_. 191. ---- odorata. 192. ---- oppositifolia. 193. ---- oppositifolia, _rubra_. 194. ---- pallens. 195. ---- Patersonia, _major_. 196. ---- Patersonia, _coccinea_. 197. ---- pellucida. 198. ---- petiolata. 199. ---- pinifolia. 200. ---- pinifolia, _discolor_. 201. ---- planifolia. 202. ---- prægnans. 203. ---- primuloides. 204. ---- racemifera. 205. ---- Savileia. 206. ---- sebana, _nana_. 207. ---- squamosa. 208. ---- staminea. 209. ---- Swainsonia. 210. ---- tenuiflora. 211. ---- tenuiflora, _alba_. 212. ---- tetragona. 213. ---- tiaræflora. 214. ---- vernix. 215. ---- vestita, _lutea_. 216. ---- villosa.