ERICA lanuginosa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris barbatis inclusis, corolfis axillaribus
dcclinatis tomentosis acute ovifoirrabus, vertlcillis
foliorum ternatorum ciliatorum distinctis.
DE3CRIPTIO.
SUFFHUTF.X pygmseus, at robustulus, subpedalis,
erectus, ramis pier unique simplicibus, vix patulis.
FOLIA ternata, in verticillis distinctis, parum declinara,
Ianato-eifiata, subtus sulcata.
FLOR.CS axillares, ssspius solitarii, subsessiles,
primo ñútanles, demum cernui.
CALYX duplex, exterior minor, S-phyllus, foliolis
adpressis, ovatis acutís, extus convexis, carinatis et
tomentosis: interior tetraphyllus, foliolis ut in exteriore,
at plus duplo majoribus.
COROLLA quadrilida, magna, ovara, subacuta,
inflata, tomentosa, albido-lutescens, basi fusco-purpurascens,
laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, convergentibus,
obtusis.
STAMINA octo, capiliaria, basi Iatiora, 4 interiora
erecta, 4 exteriora perflexuosa; anthers barbara;,
inclusse.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiara^forme: stylus filiformes
: stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Octobris ad Januarium.
It E FERE XT IA .
1. Calyx duplex.
•>. Corolla.
8. Eadem expansa.
4. Stamina et Pistillum.
5. Stamen exterius lente auctum.
6. Pistillum, stigmate diducto lenteque aucto.
1. Germen tiarffiforme lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom,
blossoms axillary bent downwards woolly and acutely
egg-shaped, with the whorls of ternate ciliated
leaves distinct.
DESCRIPTION".
A DWARF shrub, but stoutish, scarcely a foot
high, erect, with chiefly simple, scarcely spreading
branches.
LEAVES in threes, in distinct whorls, a little bent
downwards, lanately-ciliated, and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS in the bosoms of the leaves, often solitary,
nearly sessile, at first nodding, finally cernuous.
EMPALEMBNT double, outer the smallest, Sleaved,
with the leaflets close-pressed to the blossom,
egg-shaped, acute, outwardly convex, keeled, and
woolly : interior four-lcaved, with the leaflets as in
the exterior one, but above twice as large.
BLOSSOM four-cleft, large, egg-shaped, acutish,
inflated, woolly, of a dingy yellow-white, purplybrownish
at the base, with the segments egg-lanceshaped,
converging, and obtuse.
CHIVES eight, hair-like, broader at the base, 4
interior upright, 4 exterior very much bent; tips
bearded, within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped : shaft threadshaped
: summit four-angled.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of October to January.
ii F. I'Eii BKC E.
1. The double Empalement.
2. A blossom.
3. The same expanded.
4. The Chives and Pointal.
,5. One of the exterior Chives magnified.
6. The Pointal, with the summit detached and
magnified.
j . The turban-shaped stigma magnified.