ERICA incarnata.
CHAR ACTEU SPECIFICUS.
EniCA, antheris criftalis, fub¡ncluí¡s; corollis
fubo\.UÍs, carneis; pedunculis loiigiífiínis, eoloratis;
foliis qoateraiSd
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fubcrcclus,pedalis ramofiíhmus, rami,
et ramuli, flexuofi, divaricato patente.
FOLIA quaterna, obtnfa, linearía, glabra, fubtusfulcata;
peüolis brcvifiîmis, adprcílís.
FLORES terminales, racemum denle formantes;
pedunculi longiflimi, purpurei, braclcis tribus
infiructi.
CALYX. Perianthium tetrapb}dluin, foliolis
ovatis, carinaüs, acuminatis.
COROLLA fubovata, cemua, carnea, ore contracto,
loev ¡filme quadrifido, laeiniis crectis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo eapillaria, receptáculo
inlerta. Anthera; criñatae, fub-inclufoe.
PISTILLUM. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus
filiformis, exfertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Capul Bonoe Spei.
Floret a menfi Julii, in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx, ct Corolla.
2. Calyx lente auctus,
3. Stamina, et Piítillum.
4 . Stamina a Piftillo diducta; antbcra una
lente aucta.
5. Stylus, ct Stigma, lente auna.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with erefted tips, nearly within the
bloffoms, which are almotl egg-ihaped, and
flcfh-coloured; the foot-flalks are very long, and
coloured; the leaves grow by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM nearly upright, a foot high, and very
much branched; the larger and fmaller branches
grow zigzag, and fprcad outward.
LEAVES grow by fours, are blunt, linear,
iinooth, and furrowed underneath; with fhort
foot-ilalks preffed to Uie branches.
The FLOWERS grow at the end of the fmaller
branches, forming a ciofe bunch; the foot-italks
arc very long, and purple, having three floral
leaves.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are
egg-ihaped, keeled, and pointed.
BLOSSOM nearly egg-ihaped, bending downward,
and flefh-coloured, the mouth contracted,
but flightly cut into four upright fegmcnts.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the
receptacle. Tips erefted, nearly within the bloffom.
POINTAL. Sced-vcffel nearly round. Shaft
thread-ihaped, and without the bloffom. Summit
four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from Jul)', till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement, and Bloffotn.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. The Chives, and Pointal.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one
tip magnified.
5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified.