E R I C A piiiifoLk, discolor.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICAJ anthcris muticis, inclusis; floribus verticillatis;
corollis tubulosis, costatis, glandulosis;
foliis senis, conferlis, incur v i s ; caufibus
robus lis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, brevis, robustus, paululuni
flcxuosus, cicatricibus foliorum asper; rami foliis
dense tecti, numerosi, sub-verticillati, patentes,
•;'.ie cxpansi; apieibus adseeudeutibus.
FOLIA plerumque sena eonfertissima, linearía,
unchdia, subtiis sulcata, seniora recurva, sed post
medium iucurva, adscetidentia.
FLORES verticillati sub apieibus ramorum borizontaliter;
pedunculi colorati, hirsuti; bractcis
tribus hirsutis.
CALYX tetrapliyllus; foliolis linearibus, subulalis,
hirsutis, adpressis.
COROLLA tubulosa, costata, pollicaris, pilis
glandulosis densissime circumsessa, apicem versus
albis, ad basin rubris; laciniis revolutis,
obsolete crenulatis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria; anthcra;
siib-inclusa', muticffi.
PISTILLL'M. Germen tiarrcformc, lanatum.
Stylus filiformis, sub-exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Eonre Spci.
Floret a mense Maio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus.
2. Corolla lente aucta.
3. Stamina ct Pistillum, antherá unicá lente
auctá.
4. Germen lente auctnm
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom ;
flowers grow in whorls; blossoms tubular, ribbed,
and glandular; leaves by sixes, crowded, and
turned inwards; stem stout.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, short, stout, and alittle fiexuose,
rough from the cicatrices of the haves; the
branches thickly covered with leaves, numerous,
rather whorled, spreading, and expanded, with
ascending points.
LEAVES chiefly in sixes, very crowded, linear,
an inch long, furrowed beneath, the older oues
recurved, but beyond the middle incurvedlv
ascending.
FLOWERS whorled near the ends of the branches
in an horizontal direction; footstalks coloured,
and hispid; with three rough-haired floral leaves.
EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets are linear,
awl-shaped, harshly haired, and pressed to the
blossom.
BLOSSOM tubular, ribbed, an inch long, and
closely beset with glandular hairs, white towards
the end and red at the base ; the segments of the
border are rolled back, and slightly notched.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips just
within the blossom, and beardless.
POIXTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped and woolly.
Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom.
Summit four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July
REFERENCE.
1. The Fmpalemenl magnified,
3. A Blossom magnified.
3. The Chives and Pointal, one l ip magni
fled.
4. Seed-bud magnified.