ERICA baccans.
C H A R A C T E R SPECJFICUS.
ERICA, antheris criltatis, incluíis; folia quatcrna,
rígida, glauca; corollia globofis, umbcllatis,
calycibufquc purpuréis.
D E S C R I P T I O .
CAULIS fraticofus, ere ¿tus, fefquipedalis; ramofiffimus,
rami rigidi, crecli, torti.
FOLIA quaterna, glauca, incurvata, fubtus fálcala,
rigida, fcrrulata.
FLORES terminales, plemmque quatuor, umbellali,
ñútanles; pcduncuU longi, purpurei, bracteis
tribus inftructi.
C a l y x . Perianthium tetraphyllutn, foliolis
ovatis, carinatis, adpreífis.
COROLLA globofa purpurea, ima quadrata;
limbo quadrilobo, laeiniis ¿cqualibus, crectis.
S t a m i n a . Filamcnla octo capillaria, receptáculo
inlerta; anthera; criftataí, incluía;.
PISTILLUM. Germen globofum, magnum,
fulcatum; ílylus iubexfertus, pyramidalis; lligma
tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a menfi Aprilis, i n Julium.
REFERENTIA
1. Calyx, et Corolla.
2 . Calyx lente auctus.
;!. Stamina, et Piftillum.
4. Stamina a Piftillo didudta, anthera mia
lente aucla.
5. Piftillum, ct Germen lente anctum.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R.
HEATH, with creftcd tips, within the blofTom;
the leaves grow by fours, are harfh, and of a
whitiih green; the flowers are globular, in
bunches, and are, as well as their cups, purple.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM ihrubby, upright, a foot and a half high,
and very branching; the branches arc harfh, upright,
and twilled.
Le a v e s grow by fours, are of a whitiih green,
and bent inwards, furrowed beneath, inflexible,
and (lightly tawed at the edge.
FLOWERS grow at the ends of the branches,
mofily by fours, in bunches, and nodding; the
foot-ftalks are long, and purple, having three
floral leaves.
E m p a l e m e n t . Cup four-leaved, which are
egg-ihaped, keeled, and preffed to the blofTom.
BLOSSOM globular, purple, and fquarcd at the
bafe; the border four-lobed, the fegments of
which are upright, and equal.
Ch i v e s . Eight hair-like threads fixed into
the receptacle; the tips crefted, and within the
blofTom.
POINTAL. Seed-vefTel globular, large, and
furrowed; the fhaft nearly without the blofTom,
tapering from the bafe; the fununit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April, till July.
1. The Empalement, and BlofTom.
2 . The Empalement magnified.
3. The Chives, and Pointai.
4. The Chives detached from thcPointal; one
tip magnified.
;>. The Pointai, and Seed-vefTel, magnified.