ERICA staminea.
C H A R A C T E R S I* lie I F I C U S .
ERICA, antheris muticis, staminibusque extra
flores solitarios di va ri cato-ce ni uis, foliis tema lis,
raniis vertidllatis.
D E S C R I P T I O .
CAULIS frutîcosus, bipedalis, rarnis iiumerosis,
verticillatis patuUs.
FOLIA temata, erecta, parva, carnosa, lucida,
subtus sulcata, petiolis ramulos adpressis.
FLORES solitarii, t e i T n b i a l e s , in ramulos pernumerosos,
laterales, tematos, et paulo declinatos ;
peduncuh bracteis tribus instructi.
C A L Y X tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis.
COROLLA parva, tetragona, luteo-albida, lacinüs
patcntibus rotundatis.
STAMINA octo, capillaria, pradonga, extra Mores
plus minusve péndula ; antbene mutica;.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiai.eforme, lanuginosum ;
siylus fiüforuiís.
Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spci.
Floret ámense Junio a d Septembrern.
U E F E R E X T I A .
1. Foflum lente auctuin.
2. Calyx.
3. Corolla.
4. Calyx cum bracteís lente auctus.
.5. Corolla varictalis alba;.
G. Stamina ct Pisü'llum, lente aucta.
7. Gormen ct Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
8A Germen lente auctum.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R .
HEATH, with beardless tips, and chives divaricately
cernuous from the solitary flowers, leaves in
threes, and branches whorled.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, two feet high, with numerous
whorled branches, very slightly spreading.
LEAVES in threes, erect, small, fleshy, shilling,
furrowed beneath, with petioles pressed to the
branchlets.
FLOWERS solitary, terminal, on very numerous,
lateral, tcrnate, and slightly drooping branches ;
peduncles furnished with three floral leaves.
E M P A L L M t N T four-leaved, with the leaflets eggshaped.
BLOSSOM small, square, of a yellow-white colour,
with segments spreading and rounded.
CHIVES eight, capillary, very long, and hanging
more or less out of the flower; tips beardless.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly;
shah thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.
I t E F K R E N C E .
] . A Leaf magnified.
'1. The l'.mpalement.
3. A Blossom.
•t. The Empalement and floral leaves magnified.
5. A Blossom of a white variety.
G. The Chives and Pointal magnified.
7. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
H. The Seed-bud magnified.