ERICA Swainsoriia.
CHAKACTF.lt SPEC1FICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis : floribus
in umbellis lerminalibus : foliis quiñis vcl senis,
conferías, ercctis.
DESCRIPTIO.
GAULIS fruticosus, c reclus, pedal is et ultra:
ramulis vorticillalis.
FOLIA quina vel sena, obtusa, erecta, confería,
supra plana, subtus sulcata.
FLORES ramos terminant in unibellis : peduuculis
brevibus, bracteis tribus adpressis.
CALTX. Perianlbium letraphvllum : foliolis
lanceolatis calyci adpressis.
COROLLA sub-cylindrica, pollicaris, miníate :
laciniis ovatis, patentibus.
STAMINA. Filamcnta octo capillaria : anthera?
mu tica-, sub-inrlusa1.
PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, sulcatum,
ad basin nectariis gland ni i fer is. Stylus liliforinis.
Stigma tctragouum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret in mensibus autumnalihu-
ItEFEREXTIA.
J. Calyx.
8. Stamina à Pistillo diducta : anthrrû unâ
lente aucta.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips just within the blossoms:
flowers grow in terminal umbels: leaves
by fives or sixes, crowded, and upright.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high :
the small branches grow in whorls.
LEAVES by fives or sixes, obtuse, erect, and
crowded, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed
beneath.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in-umbels:
footstalks short, with three floral leaves pressed
to them.
E.MPALEMEST. Cup four-leaved : leaflets
Lance-shaped, and pressed to the cup.
BLOSSOM nearly cylindrical, an inch long,
and o f a reddish colour: segments ovate, and
spreading.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless,
and just within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, with glandular
nectaries at the base Shaft thread-shaped. Summit
four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers in the autumnal months.
RE TERENCE
1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified,
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.