ERICA Patersoiiia, major.
C H A R A C T E R S P E C I F I C US.
ERICA, antlieris aristaíis, inclusis : foliis quaternis
: floribus luteis, cylindricis, magnis : ramis
pyramidalis: ramulis numéros is, confcrtis : caule
erecto.
DESCRTPTIO.
CAITAS fruticosus, sesquipedal is, ereclus, ad
basin ramosos, dein spicam símplieissimaní pyramidalam
formant, ramulis hrcvihiis vestitaiu.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, incurvata, glabra,
subtus lev iter sulcata: petiolis brevissimh adpressis.
FLORES números!, prominentes super ranuilos
brevissimos cauli adpressos.
CALYX. Perianth i urn duplex : cxterius triphvlluui:
foliolis ovalis, acuminalis : intcrioribus
tetrapliyllis, et longioribus.
COROLLA eylindrica, polliearis, glabra, lutea:
limbo quadrifido, reflexo.
STAMINA. Filaments oeto eapillaria receptarulo
inserta : anthene arislata?, inclusas.
PISTILLUM. Germen coromeforme. Stylus
filiforniis, rnrvatus, exerlus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bons Spci.
Floret a mensc Maio in Septeinbrem.
Ii T. V V. il E N T I A .
1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherfi una lente
auctft.
4. Germen el Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
5. Germen lente auctuni.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R ,
HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom :
leaves grow by fours: flowers yellow, of a
cylinder shape, and large: the large branches
arc of a pyramidal form : the small branches
are numerous, and crowded together; stem upright.
D E S C R I P T I O N " .
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright,
branching at the base, then forming a
simple pv ramidal spike cohered bv short branches.
LEAVES by fours, linear, turned inward, smooth,
and lightly furrowed benealh : footstalks very
short, and pressed to the stem.
FLOWERS numerous, standing out upon very
short branches that arc close to the stem.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double: the outer one
three-leaved : the leaflets are ovale, and pointed:
the inner ones four-leaved and longer.
BLOSSOM cAlindrical, an inch long, smooth,
and yellow: with a four-lobed retlexed border.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads in-crted into
the receptacle: tips bearded, and within the
blossom.
POINT A L. Seed-bud crown-shaped. Shaft
thread-shaped, curved, and without the blossom,
Summit four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from May till September
II E I ' E R E X C E .
I. The Empalement.
l2. A Blossom.
3. The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
5. Sccd-bud magnified.