ERICA Maffonîa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Kmc A, anthcris muiréis, inclufis; corollis fubrylindricis,
vifcofis, fpeciofiffirms, tricoloratis ; foliis
fubquaternis, pilis longis vcfiitis.
DESCRIFTIO.
CAULIS fruticofus, creel us, bipcdalïs, ball fimpliciilimus,
dein ramofus, rami fubcrecli, foliis
toti tecli.
FOLIA fubquaterna, oblonga, fcrrata, puis
longis vefiiia, lupra plana, fubtus fulcata, pctiolis
breviflimis adprefîis.
FLOUES fubterminales, plures, fimplicc verticillati,
ccrnuo-patcnli, pedunculi pilofi, fuliolis
tribus fubtus initrucli.
CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, fuliolis
lanciolalis, hirfutis, adprciïïs, apicibus revolutis.
Co r o l l a fubeylindracea, micans, vifcofa, rubra,
lutca ct vividia lpcciofiifime .colorata, ore
arela to, quadrifido.
S t a m i n a . Fihnicnia ocio capillaria, longitudine
tubi, receptáculo inferta. Ant lierai mutica?.
PiSTiLLi'M. Genncn clavatum, fulcatum.
Stylus filiformis, fubexfertus. Stigma tetrago-
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spci.
Floret a mcnii Augulii ad Deccmbrcm.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx et Corolla.
2. Calyx lente auclus.
3 . Stamina ct Piflillum.
4. Stamina a Piftillo diduela, antliera una
lente auela.
5. Stylus ct Stigma lente auela.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardlefs tips, within die bloffom,
which are nearly cylindrical, clammy, molt beautiful,
and three-coloured; the leaves grow moftly
by fours, and arc entirely covered with long hairs.
DESCRIPTION.
S t em flirubby, upright, grows two feet high,
fimple at the bale, then branching, die branches
nearly upright, and quite covered by the leaves.
Le a v e s grow moftly by fours, oblong, fawed,
clothed with long hairs, fmooth on the upper,
and furrowed on the under part, having very
fhort leaf-Items preffed to the branches.
Fl o w brs are numerous, in tingle whorls, near
the fummit of the branches, bending downward,
and fpreading, the foot-ltalks hairy, with three
fmall leaves fixed on their under part.
Em p a l e m e n t . Cup four-leaved, which arc
lance-fhapcd, hairy, preffed to the bloffom, and
rolled back at the point.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, mining, clammy,
and molt beautifully coloured with red, yellow,
and green, narrow at the mouth, which is divided
into four fegments.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, the length
of the bloffom, fixed into the receptacle. Tips
beardlefs.
P o i n t a l . Seed-veiTel club-fhapcd, and furrowed.
Shaft thrcad-fhaped, rather without the
bloffom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from Auguii till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement and Bloffom.
2. Tht- Empalement magnified.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4 . The Chives detached from the Pointal; one
tip magnified.
5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.