ERICA lateralis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA anthcris eriftatis, i n e l i i l i s ; corolla purpurea,
urccolato-campanulata, a<l baño, plana:
pedunculis l o n g i f l i m i s ; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus,
fecundis, cernuis; foliis quaternis,
obtufis, glabcrrimis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fiulicofus, ereftus, pedalis; rami fubfimplices,
virgatí, lili formes.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, obtufa, fub-trigona,
craffiulcula, brevifiime petiolata, peüolis adpreffis.
FLO RES ad apices ramorum ramulorumque
umbellati, eernui, l'ecundi, purpurei; pedunculi
florum triplo longitudinc colorati, bracteis tribus
minulis iiuuucti.
CALYX. Periantliium tetraphyllum, foliolis
mimitis, adpreflis, ciliads, fubulatis.
COROLLA lub-campanulata ad bafin plana,
purpurea ; laciniis limbi obtulis, fubcrcccis.
STAMINA. Filaincnta octo, eapillaria, apicc
mcurvata. Anthcra; criftatae, atro-purpureje, incluía;.
PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, lulcatum,
ad balin glandulofum. Stylus llaminibus longior,
externas. Stigma tctragonum, viiclcens.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spci.
Floret a menfe Augufii, in Decembrem.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. CALYX ET COROLLA.
2. Calyx, auctus.
3 . Corolla.
4. Stamina, et Fiftillum.
5. Stamina a P i l l i l l o diducta, anthem una
lente aucta.
6. Pifiillum, lente aucrum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with creftcd tips, within the bloffoni;
which is purple, between bell and pitcher fhaped,
flat at the bale ; foot-fbtlks very long; flowers
grow in umbels at the end of the branches,
point all one way and hang down; leaver
grow by fours, are blunt and very fmooth.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM fhrubbv, upright, grows a foot high ;
branches nearly Ample, twiggy and threadthaped.
LEAVES grow by fours, linear, blunt, almotl
three-tided, ihickifh, very fhort fool-iialks, which
are pretfed to the fteiu.
FLOWERS grow in umbels, at the end of the
larger and linaUcr branches, nodding, all pointing
one way, and are purple; foot-italks thrice
the length of the flowers, coloured, and three
fmall floral leaves upon them.
EMPALEMKNT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets
fmall, prefled to the bloffom, fringed and awllhapcd.
BLOSSOM approaching to bell-fli3pc; the
lower part flat, and purple; the tegmenta of the
border are blunt and rather upright.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, turned inwards
at the upper part. Tips creftcd, deep
purple, and within the bloflbm.
POINT AL. Seed-bud turban-fhaped, furrowed,
glandular at the bale. Shaft longer than the
chives, without the bloffom. Summit fourcornered
and grecniih.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from Auguft, till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement, and Bloffom.
2. The Empalement, magnified.
3 . The Bloflbm.
4. The Chives, and Pointal.
5. The Chives detached from the Pointal,
one Tip magnified.
6. The Pointal, magnified.