ERICA Sebana lutea.
CHARACTER SPEC I FTC U S.
EBICA, andicris mulicis, exfcrtis, longiffimis;
corolla cónica, lutea; laciniis oblufis, crcclis;
floribus temis, terminalibus, drpendentibus;
calyi duplex, imbrieatus; folds ternis, conferlifliinis,
reflexis, an i u r i s ; caulis fimplex, c l o n -
galus.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS crcctus, bipedalis, laxus; rami pauci,
ramulis breviJlimis tecti.
FOLIA terna, linearia, arcuata; conferta, liihtrigona,
reflexa, apicc acuta, brcviffimc pctiolata.
FLOBES tend in apice ramulorum penduli;
pcdunculis breviifimis.
CALVX. Pcrianlhium duplex, externa triphyllum,
foliolis lato-ovatis, meinbranaceis, adprcllis,
imbricatis ; interna tctrapbyllum, foliolis
majoribus.
Co BO LL A cónica, calyce duplo longior, lutea;
laciniis limbi oblulis, erectis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo, linearla, plana.
Anthera; mutica:, exfertae, lineares, longiffima?,
attcnuata in filamenta.
PISTILLCM. Germen o\alc, apice truncatum,
fulcatum. Stylus riliforniis, exferlus, ftamínibus
paulo longior. Stigma obfoletum, virefcens.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a menk Augusti, in Januarium.
R E F E R E N T IA
1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina, et Pifrillum.
4. Stamina a pifiillu diduita.
5. Anthera una, lente aucta.
d. Piftilluni, magnituditie naturali, Stigma
dilatalum.
7. Germen, aitctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, w i t h bcardlcfs tips, without the blolfom
and very long ; b l o l f om conical, and yellow;
fegments o f t h e border upright: flowers grow bythrees,
tenninating the branches, hanging down;
empalement double, tded; leaves g r ow by threes,
very crowded, are bent back and crooked ; stem
limplc, lengthened out.
DESCRIPTION.
ST EM upright, grows two feet high, and weak ;
larger branches few, covered with numerous
fhortcr ones.
LEAVES grow by threes, linear, curved,
crowded, nearly thrcc-fidcd, rcflexed, fharppointed,
foot-ftalks very fhort.
FLOWERS grow by threes hanging down at
the end of the fmaller branches; foot-ftalks very
fhort.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double, the outer threeleaved,
leaflets broad egg-fhaped, fkinny, pretfed
to the inner, and died; the inner four-leaved,
with larger leaflets.
BLOSSOM conical, twice the length of the
cup, yellow ; the fegments of the border blunt
and upright.
CHIVES. Eight linear threads, fiat. Tips
bcardlcfs, without the bloffom, linear, very long,
tapered into the threads.
POINTAL. Seed bud oval, appearing cut off
at the end, furrowed. Shaft thread-fhaped,
without the bloffom, a little longer than the
chives. Summit obfolete, and grcenifh.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from Auguft, till January.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. The Bloffom.
3. The Chives, and Pointal.
4. The Chives detached from the pointai.
b. A Tip, magnified.
G. The Pointal of the natural fizc, tlieSunimil
larger.
7- The Seed-bud; magnified.