ERICA nitida.
CHARACTER SPECIFICÜS.
ERICA, antheíia cristatis, inclusis; corOllís crystalliais,
albidis, nitidis; foliis tends, linearibus,
obtusis.
DESCRIPTION
CAULIS fruticosus, scsquipcdalis, orectus; ramulis
mi mero sis.
FOLIA terna, obtusa, linearía, sublus sulcata,
erecto-patentia
FLORES in ramulis terminales, umbellati, terni
Vel qoini, cernui; pedunculi breves, bracteis
tribus calyeiformibus, adprcssis.
CALYX tetrapbylhis; foliolis spatbulatis, patenlibus,
viscosis, adpressis.
COROLLA ovata, infiata, crystal!ina, alba, nítida,
inagnitudine ptsi; laciniis revolutis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria ; anlhcra;
cristata-, inclusa;.
PISTILLLM. Germen tiara-forme, sulcatum,
pilosum. Stylus sub-exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobreui.
1:1.1'! RE XTI A.
1. Folium auetum.
•2. Calyx lente auctu*.
3. Corolla.
1. Stamina et Pi milium, anlherj unirá lente
auetá.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with crested lips, within the bl
of a crystalline while, and shining; lea
threes, linear, and obtuse.
D ESC l( iPTlONf.
STEM shrubbv, a fool and a half high, upright;
with numerous small branches.
LEAVES by threes, obtuse, linear, furrowed
beneath, and between erect and spreading.
FLOWERS terminate the small branches in umbels
of from three to five, and nodding; footstalks
short, with three floral leaves o f the shape
of the cup, and pressed to it.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved ; ihe leaflets
are spathula-shaped, spreading, clammy, and
pressed to the blossom.
BLOSI DM egg-shaped, and swelled out, of a crystalline
vihite. shining, and o f the size of a pea ;
the segments o f the border are reflexed.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads ; tips crested,
and within Ihe blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed,
and hairv. Shaft just without the blossom. Summit
four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July lill October.
RE FEB RNCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
3. The Empalement magnified.
.1. A Blossom.
4. The Chives and Pointal, one l ip magnified.
5. Seed-hud and Pointal, summit magnified
ci. Seed-bud magnified,