ERICA tenuiflora.
C H A R A C T E R S P E C I F I C U S .
ERICA, antlieris muticis, iuclusis ; corolÜs quaternis,
tcnuissimis, luleis. Folia terna et quatorna,
linearía.
DESCRIPTIO.
ClDLB frulicosiis, pcdalis, debilis. Rami et
ramuli filiformes, virgati.
FOLIA terna et qiiaterna, linearía; pctiolis
longis adpressis.
FLORES in ultimis ramulis quatemi, patentes;
pedunculis brevissimis.
CALYX Periantlrium duplex; extcrius triphyllum,
foliolis ianceolatis; iutcrius tctraphilium,
foliolis longioribus.
COROLLA tnba'forrais, temiissima, lutea; oris
laciniis acuniinatis, patentibus.
STAMINA. Filauienta octo; anlheris mulicis,
incluaia,
PISTILLLM. (iernien oblonguui. Stylus filiformis.
Stigma telragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona' Spei.
Floret a mente April! ad Junium
I l E l • X I I K N T I A ,
1. Calyx lente auctus,
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina el Pi-tillum, aulherj una díduelj
lente auctá.
4. Germen et Pistillum. stiginale lente aucto.
5. Germen auctum.
S P E C I P I C C H A R A C T E R .
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms;
which grow by fours, are very slender, and
yellow. Leaves by threes and fours, and linear.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, a foot high, weak. ' I V
large and small branches are thread-shaped, and
twiggy.
LEAVES by threes and fours, linear, with long
foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
FLOWERS grow by fours at the ends of the
small hranclies, and spreading; with very short
foot-stalks.
EMTALEMENT. Cup double ; the outer threeleaved,
and leaflets laucc-shaped : the inner one
four-leaved, and longer than the outer.
BLOSSOM trumpet-shaped, very slender, and
yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed
and spreading.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless,
and within the blossom.
POINTAL Seed-bud of an oblong form. Shaft
thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till June.
R E I ' E R E N C K .
I. The Empalementmagnified,
3. A Blossom,
The Chives and Pointal, one lip detached
and magnified.
4 Seed-bud and Pointal. summitmagnified
5. Seed-bud magnified.