ERICA ventrícofa.
OH A n ACTER SPEC1FICUS.
ERICA, antheris bafi bicornibus i n c l u f i s ; corollis
o b l o n g o - o varis, ventricofis, glabris; foliis quatern
i s ciliatis.
DESCIUPTIO.
CAÜHS fruticofus, femipedalis, teres, crafiiufculus,
ramofifumus, ramis rccurvato-adfcendentibus.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, acuta, b a ñ recurvara,
ápice adfcendentia, eiliata, fupra plana, fubtus revoluta,
nítida, p e t i o l is brevifTimis adpreflis.
FLORES terminales, plures, faítigiati, creóti;
pedunculi purpure!, bafi inftructa bracteis binis,
parvis, oppofitis.
CALYX. Periantbium tetraphyllum foliolis
crectis, carinarás, ciliatis.
COROLLA o b l o n g o - o v a t a , ápice arclata, limbo
Ecquali, quadrilobo, fubreflexo, albo-purpurafcens,
glabra, nitida.
STAMINA. Filamenla o c i o capillaria; corollas
fubarqualia, receptáculo inferta. Antlicrre mclufa?,
parvas, bifida;, bafi bicornes.
PISTILLUM. Germen, oblongum, fulcatuni.
Stylus filiformis, filamentis requalis ; fligma fubtetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a menfi Aprili ad Septembrem.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Calyx, el Corolla.
•I. Calyx, et Bractea lente aueta.
3 . Stamina, et Piftillum.
4. Stamina a Piftillo diducta; anthcra una
lente aueta.
5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aueta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, w i t h dps t w o - h o r n e d at their bafe, included
w i t h i n bloffoms of an o b l o n g - o v a t e form,
intlated and f m o o t h ; leaves ciliafe, growing by
fours.
DESCRIPTION.
THE STEM fhrubby, about half a foot high,
cylindrical, thickifh, very much branched, the
branches bend downward, then afeend.
LEAVES g r o w i n g by fours, linear, p o i n t e d w i th
a recurved bafe, and an afcending point, ciliate,
fiat on their upper, and rolled back o n their u n der,
furface, fhining, the leaf-items very fhort,
and preffed t o t h e branches.
FLOWERS terminal, numerous, upright, level,
and in b u n c h e s ; the footftalks purple, h a v i n g t wo
fmall oppofite floral leaves at their bafe.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, erect, k c e l -
fhaped, and ciliate.
BLOSSOM of an o b l o n g - o v a t e form, narrowed
toward the t o p , with a flightly reffexed border,
of a w h i t i f h purple, fmooth, and fhining.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a
l e n g t h with t h e bloffom, fixed into the receptacle.
T i p s within the bloffom fmall, cleft, and t w o -
horned at their bafe.
POIXTAL. Seed-veffel o b l o n g and furrowed.
Shaft thread-fhaped, of an equal l e n g t h w i d i the
threads. Summit nearly four-cornered.
Native of t h e Cape of G o o d Mope.
I n b l o om from April till September.
REFERENCE.
1. T h e Empalement w i t h the Bloffom.
1. T h e Empalement and F l o r a l - l e a f magnified.
3 . T h e Chives and Pointal.
4. T h e Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified.
5. T h e Shaft, and its Summit magnified.