ERICA planifolia.
CHARACTER SFECIFICUS,
ERIC*, ¡iiilhcris baii bicornibus, sub-exertis:
floribus axillaribus, urccolatis, purpuréis: pedunculis
lougis: foliis teruis, spathuhitis, glaiidulusis:
raiuis numcrosis, llcxuosis.
FJESCRIPTIO.
CAI'LIS fruticosus, scsquipcdalis: rami et ramuli
numerosi, flexuosi, erecto-patentes.
FOLIA tenia, spalhnlata, supra plana, subtus
rariuata, albida : marginihus glandulosis, revolutis.
FLORES sub apiees ramorum, simp]ices, axillares:
pedunculis lnngis, coloraba, glandulosis.
CALYX. Perianthium tetraphvllum: foliolis
ovato-acuiuinatis, marginibus revolutis glandulosis.
COROLLA urccolata, glabra, purpurea: oris
laciniis obtusis, erectis.
S t l m « \. Filamenta octo capillaria : aulhcra:
basi bicórnea, sub-exerta?.
PisTiLLiM. Germen thiraformc, Ieviter sulcatum,
supra pilosum, ad basin ncrtariferirm.
SI \ 111- lilil'ormis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habita) ad Capul BOMB Spei.
Flore) a meóse Augusti in Septeinbreiu.
RTFTRK XT I A.
1. Folium lente auctum.
2. Idem subtus, lente auctum.
3. Calyx lente auctus.
4. Stamina et Pistillum.
5. Stamina a Pislillo libérala.
C. Alitbcra única lente aucta.
7. Pistillum et Germen, «.ligiuatr lente auc to.
fc. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
H e a t h , with tips two-homed at the base, and
just without the blossom : (lowers grow from the
axilla- of the leaves, are pitcher-shaped, and
purple: footstalks long: leaves by threes, spathula
shaped, and glandular: branches numerous,
and flexuose.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: the
smaller and larger branches are numerous,
flexuose, and between erect and spreading.
LEAVES by threes, spathnla-'hnped, flat on their
upper surface, keeled beneath, and whitish: with
glandular margins rolled back.
FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches,
singly, from the axilla' of the leaves: footstalks
l o n e coloured, and glaudular.
EMPALEMEXT. Cup four-leaved : leaflets
ovalely-pointed, with rcvolute glandular margins.
BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, smooth, and purple:
the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips twohorned
at the base, and just within the blossom.
PoiNTA!.. Seed-bud lnrban--haped, slightly
furrowed, hairy on the upper part, with honeycups
at the ba*e. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit
four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from August lill September.
REFERENCE.
I . A Leaf magnified.
o. The same shown from the under side,
magnified.
3. The Empalement magnified.
4. The Chives and Pointai.
5. The Chives liberated from the Pointai.
C. A Chive magnified.
7. Secd-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
H. Secd-bud magnified,