ERICA squamosa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICU8.
ERICA, autheris crislatis, iuelnsis; corollis globons,
umbel I• I11•. purpuras; caly c ibu s squamosis,
albicantibus; foliis quaternis,
DF.SCRIPTIO.
CAL'LIS fruticosus, crcclus, scsquipcdalis, ramosus;
rami filiformes, erecti.
FOLIA quaterna, glabra, obtusa, subtus sulcata,
serrulata.
FLOHES terminales, umhellali. terni vel seni in
singula umbella, cerniri; pedum-ill i purpurei,
braeteis tribus instruct!
CALYX tetraphyllum; foliolis squamosis, OYatis,
earinatis. albicantibus.
COROLLA globosa, purpurea; laeiniis equalibusj
patentibus.
STAMINA. Filamonta oeto capillaria, receptáculo
inserta; anthers cristata-, inclusa?.
PisTlLLlM. Germen tiara-forme Stilus íiliforniis,
iiiclusus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a inense Aprili in Juliuni.
R K FE RENT I A .
1. Calvx et Corolla,
y, C a l j i lente auctns.
•3. Corolla
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anllierä uuá
lente aucti.
Fi. Germen et Pistillum, sligmatc aucto.
0. Germen lente auctuui.
7. Hamulus cum Involucro Horum.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R ,
HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom:
blossoms globular, umbelled, and purple; tincup
is scaly, and o f a whitish colour; leaves by
fours.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high,
branching; branches thread-shaped and upright.
LEAVES by fours, smooth, blunl, furrowed beneath,
and -lightly sawed at the edges.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of
three to six in each umbel, nodding; the footstalks
arc purple, having three floral leave*.
EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets scaly, eggshaped,
keeled, and o f a whitish colour.
BLOSSOM globular, and purple; the segments
are equal and spreading.
("HIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed to the receptacle;
tips crested, and within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft
thread-shaped, and within the blossom. Summit
four-cornered.
Native of the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till Julv
REFERENCE.
I . The Empalement and Blossom.
'2. The Empalement magnified.
3. A Blossom.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified.
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
8, Seed-hud magnified.
7. A branch with tlielnvoluerum o f the Bowers,