ERICA mammosa, minor.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; stylus sub-exertus;
floribus vertí eil latís, pendulis, ventricosocyliodricis
supra basin constrictis; foliis quatornis,
linearibus, glabris.
DESCRIPTIO.
GAULIS frutieosus, erectus, pcdalis et ultra; rami
vcrtieillali, eurvati.
FOLIA quatenia, linearía, glabra, cúrvala; seniora
patentia, júniora adscendentia.
FLORES semi-unciales, in summitate ramorum
vcrlieillati, penduli; pedunculi coloran", bracteis
duabus niinutis remotis instructi.
CALYX tetraphjlíum ; foliolis lato-ovatis, acuta,
apicibus coloratis, adpressis.
COROLLA purpurea, ventricoso-cylindilea, ápice
attenuata, ad basin constricta ; laciniis minutis,
creclis, ovatis.
STAHINA. Filamcnta octo eapillaria. Anibera'
aristatffi, inclusa;.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen tiara;utrmc. Shins filiformis,
sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Sepíembrís in Decenibrem.
REFF.RENTIA.
I Calyx.
tí. Calyx lente auctus.
3. Corolla.
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, aiifherä una
lente auetä.
5. Germen et Stylus, stigmatc aucto
G. Germen lente auctuni.
SPECIFIC CIIAR.lCTr.il,
IIEVTH, with bearded tips, within the blossom;
the shaft just without; flowers grow in whorls,
hanging down, o f a swelled cvlinder shape pinched
in at the base; leaves by fours, linear, and
•BOOtfc.
D ESC HIFTION.
STEM shrtibbv, upright, a toot or more high ;
branches grow in whorls, and are curved.
LEWES by fours, linear, smooth, and curved ;
the older ones spreading, and the younger ones
ascending.
FLOWERS half an inch long, near the summits
of the branches in whorls hanging down ; footstalks
coloured, having two small lloral leaves at
a distance from the cup.
RMPALEMEXT four-leaved ; leaflets of a broad
nrg-shape, pointed, the ends coloured, and pressed
to the blossoms.
BLOSSOM purple, of a swelled cvlinder shape,
tapered at the end and pinched in at the mouth ;
segments of the border are very small, upright,
and oval.
CHIVES. Fight hair-like threads. Tips bearded,
and w ithin the blossom.
P O I N T AL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft
thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit
four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope
Flowers from the month of September till December
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalrment.
2. The Empalement magnified
3. A Blo-som
1. The Chives detached from the I'ointal. onetip
magnified.
5. Seed-hud and Points), summil magnified
6, Seed-bud magnified