ERICA confpicua.
CHARACTER SPECIFIC US.
ERICA, antheris bafi bicornibus, cxfertis; corolÜs
clavatis, fcfquipollicaribus lulcis; foliis
quaternis, glabris, obtufis, crafiis.
DF.SCRTPTIO.
CA ULIS fniticofus, crccius, tripcdalis, ramofus;
ramulis verticillatis, brcvibus.
FOLIA quatcnia, obtufa, linearía, czaflk, petiolís
breviffimis, adpreflis.
F l o h e s in apicíbus ramulorum terminales,
tratantes, peduneulis brevibus, bracleis tribus
fpatliulatis.
CALYX. Períantliium tctraphyllum, foliolis
obtufis, glabris, fub-ovatis.
C o r o l l a clavata, fefquipoll icaria, lutea, bafi
attenuata; oris laciniis magnis, revolutis.
STAMINA. Filamenta ocio capillaria, receptáculo
infería. Amheris bifidis, bafi bicornibus,
cxfertis.
PISTILLUM. Germen cylindricum, fulcatum.
Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei.
Floret a menfi Junü, in Augullum.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Calyx, et Corolla.
2. Calyx lente auclus.
3 . Slamina, et Piliillum.
A. Stamina a Piftitlo diduéla; antliera una
lente auela.
5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente auela.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
HEATH, with tips two-horned at their bafe, and
without the bloflbm; the bloffoms arc clubihaped,
an inch and a half long, and yellow;
the leaves grow by fours, arc fniooth, blunt, and
thick.
DESCRIPTION*.
STEM fhrubby, upright, grows three feet high,
and branching; the fmaller branches are fhort,
and grow in whorls.
The LEAVES grow by fours, are blunt, linear,
thick, and have fhort foot-tlalks pretfed to the
branches.
The F l o w e r s are terminal at the fummit of
the fmaller branches, waving, having fhort footftalks,
with three fpathula-lhaped floral leaves.
EMTALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are
blunt, fmooth, and nearly egg-lhaped.
Bl o s s om chib-fhapcd, an inch and a half
long, yellow, and tapering to the bafe; the fcgments
of the mouth are large, and rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the
receptacle. The tips are cleft, twro-homed at
their bale, and without the bloflbni.
P o i n t a l . Sced-vefiel eylindcr-fhapcd, and
furrowed. Shaft thread-fhaped. Summit fourcornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June, till Augufl.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalcmcnt, and Bloflbm.
2 . The Empalcmcnt magnified.
3 . The Chives, and Pointal.
A. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one
lip magnified.
5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.