ERICA lachnsea, purpurea.
CHARACTER SPEC I F lC US.
Erica, antheris cristatis, incluais; floribus urccolalis,
tcrminalibus ternis, purpurco-pulverulentis
; foliis ternis, confertis, obtusis, tomentosis
; ramis ct ramulis nmuerosis.
DESCniPTIO.
CAULIS crectus, pcdalis, frutieosus ; rami nuinerosi,
ramulis hrevissimis tceti.
FOLIA tema, obtusa, conferta, tomentosa, farinario
viridia, patenlia.
FLORES terni in ápice ramulorum, cernui,
peiluuculis breússimis.
CALYX. Perianthium duplex ; exterius triph\
IIuin, adpressum interiori, quod est tetraphylluiu
; foliolis ovatis, niarginibus viltosis.
COROLLA cylindraceo-urceolata, purpureopulverulcnta
; hiriuiis limbi obtusis, sub-erect is.
STAMINA. Filamenla octo capillaria; antheracristala\
inclusa1.
PISTILLL M. Germen tianrforrae, ad basin
glandulosum ; stylus tiIiformi-. erectus, intlusus.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a me use Julii in Octobrcm.
RE FE HF. NTTI A .
t. Folium lente auctum.
2. Calyx lente auctus.
3. Stamina et Pistilliun, anthera unà diductà,
et auctà.
4. Germen et Pistilliun, stigmate lente anclo.
'y. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom;
flowers pitcher-shaped, terminating the branches
by threes, of a powdery purple; leaves by
threes, crowded, blunt, and downy; the large
and smaller brandies are numerous.
DESCR I PT ION.
STEM upright, a foot high, shrubby ; branches
numerous, and covered by very short smaller
ones.
LEAVES by threes, blunt, crowded, and
downy ; of a mealy green, and spreading.
FLOWERS grow by threes at the ends of the
small branches, nodding, with very short footstalks.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double ; the outer one
is three-leaved, and pressed to the inner, which
is four-leaved; leaflets are egg-shaped, and
hairy at the edges.
BLOSSOM cylindrically pitcher-shaped, of a
powdery purple; the segments of the border
obtuse, and nearly upright.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips crested,
and within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, glandular
at the base; shaft thread-shaped, upright,
and within the blossom.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till October.
B E 1T.KEKC E.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The Emipalement magnified.
3. The Chives and Pointal, one Up detached,
and magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified,
5. Seed-bud magnified