ERICA oppositifolia.
CHARACTER SPLCIFTCUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, inelusis: floribus urceolalis,
albis: foliis oppositis, adprcssis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS sesquipedal]?, filíformis, gracilis: ramtili
eouferti, numerosi, ilexuosi.
FOLIA opposita, altérnala, brevia, obtusa, adpressa,
supra cóncava, subtus sulcata, niiida:
pctiolis brevibus.
FLORES numerosi, in ramulis terminales, plerumque
bin i : pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis
duab us.
CALYX, Perianthium tctrapbyllum: foholis
ovato-acuminatis, albis, glabris.
COROLLA alba, urceolata, ore arctata: limbu
quadrilobo patente.
STAMINA. Filamcnta octo capillaria receptáculo
inserta. Antlicrre mulica?, inclusa;, parva?.
PisriLLLM. Germen I i ara? forme, sulcatum,
viride. Stylus filíformis. Sligma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Capul Mona' Spei.
F i o r d a merise Angustí in Decembrem.
R r . l ' E R E N T I A .
I. Calyx,
y. Corolla.
.1. Stamina a Pislillo dfductt, anthrrä una
lente aurtS.
•i. Germen ct Piftillum, stígmate lente aucto.
'i. Germen lente nuctimi.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.,
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom:
flowers pitcher-shaped and white: leaves opposite,
and pressed to the stem.
DESCRIPTION".
STEM afoot and a half high, thread-shaped,
and slender: the branches are crowded, numerous,
and flexuose.
LEAVES grow opposite and alternate, arc short,
blunt-ended, and pressed to the branches, cuneave
on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath,
shining, and with short footstalks.
FLOWERS are numerous, terminating the smaller
branches mostly by twos: peduucles very short,
with two floral leaves.
FMPALEMLNT. Cup four-leaved: the leaflets
arc pointedly oval, while, and smooth.
BLOSSOM white and pitcher-shaped, narrowed
at the. mouth, with a four-lobed spreading border.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into
the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blossom,
and small.
Poi\TAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed,
and green. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till December.
I! I VI. K E N C K .
I . The Empalcment.
3. A Blossom.
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
lip magnified.
4. Seed-hud and Point il, summit magnified.
5. Sccd-bud magnified.