ERICA lanata.
C H A R A C T E R S F E C I F I C C S .
FJRICA, antheris muticis sub-exsertis; floribus
quatornis, adprcssis, sub-ginbosis, albidis, tonientosis,
calyce magno lanato tcctis; ibliis ternis,
cuneatis, lanatis ; caulis laxus, filiformis, lauatus.
D E S C R I P T I O N
CAULIS e rectus, laxus, filiformis, fuscus, sesquipcdalis;
rami et Famuli mimerosi, laxi, tomen
tosi.
FOLIA terna, cuneata, supra plana, marginibus
revolutis, lanata.
FLORES in extremis ramulis terminales, quaterni,
adpressi, cernuo-patentes, pedunculis
brcvisshnis.
CALYX. Periantbium duplex; exterius tripbvllum,
interius tetraphyllum; foüolis ovatis,
coneavis, incurvatis, lana densa tectis, adpressis.
COROLLA sub-globosa, albida, lanata, in sinu
calvéis fere recóndita.
STAMINA. Füamenta oeto capillaria, receptáculo
inserta; antheras muticaj, sub-exsertai.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiarffiforme, apice lanatum.
Stylus filiformis. Stigma tctragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Fiona; Spei.
Floret a menge Julii in Decembrem.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Folium auctum.
2. Idem subtus.
3. Calyx et Corolla.
4. Corolla.
5. Calyx lente auctus.
6. Stamina a Pistillo diducla, antberá una
lente atictä.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R .
HEATH, with beardless tips just within the blossom;
flowers by fours, pressed together, nearly
globular, whitish, and downy, covered by a large
woolly cup; leaves by threes, wedge-shaped,
and woolly; stem weak, thread-shaped, and
woolly.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM upright, weak, thread-shaped, and
brownish, a foot and a half high; the small
and large branches are numerous, weak, and
downy.
LEAVES by threes, wedge-shaped, flat on their
upper surface, rolled back at the edges, and
woolly.
FLOATERS terminate the extremity of the
branches by fours, pressed together, are nodding
and spreading, with very short footstalks.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double ; the outer threeleaved,
the inner four-leaved; the leaflets are
ovate, concave, and turned inwards, covered by
a thick wool, ami pressed to the blossom.
BLOSSOM nearly globular, whitish, woolly,
and nearly hid within the cup.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, inserted into
the receptacle; tips beardless, and just without
the blossom.
POINT A I.. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly
on the upper part. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit
four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till December.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The underside of the same.
3. The Empalement and Blossom.
4. A Blossom.
5. The Empalement magnified.
6. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified.
7. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
8. The Seed-bud magnified.