ERICA Broadleyana.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICUS.
E R I C A , anther is muticis, iiiclusis : flores solitarii,
penduli : pedunculi longi : corolla metulaîformis:
folia terna: caulis erectus, fragilis.
D E S C R I P T I O .
C A U L I S fragilis, sesquipedalis, erectus, fruticosus,
ramulis numerosis.
F O L I A terna, linearía, arcuata, acuta, glabra,
fase i culata.
FLORES solitarü, penduli, in medio ramorum
spicam laxara formantes: pedunculi longi, col
o r a t i : bracteis tribus infra miuutis.
C A L Y X tetraphyllus: foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis.
C O R O L L A melula'formis, rubro-purpurea: lacinÜs
exiguis, erectis, luteis.
S T A M I N A . Filamenta octo capillaria: anthera;
mutirae, inclusa?.
P I S T I I . L U M . Germen oblongum, leviter sulcatum,
ad basin nectariferiim. Stylus filiforniis,
exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret in mensibus autumnalibus.
R U F E R E N T I A .
1. Calyx.
2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta, anthera unâ
lente auctâ.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
H E A T H , with beardless tips, within the blossom:
flowers solitary, hanging down : footstalks long:
blossom ski ttle-sb aped: leaves by threes: stem
upright and brittle.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM brittle, a foot and a half high, upright,
and shrubby, with numerous small branches.
LEAVES by threes, linear, bowed, pointed,
smooth, and bundled.
FLOWERS grow singly, hanging down, and
forming a loose spike about the middle of the
branches: footstalks long, and coloured, with
three minute floral leaves on the lower part.
E M P A L E M E N T four-leaved : leaflets lanceshaped,
and pressed to the blossom.
BLOSSOM skittle-shaped, of a red purple colour
; the segments of the border are small, upright,
and yellow.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless,
and within the blossom,
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud oblong, lightly furrowed,
with honey-cups at the base. Shaft threadshaped,
without the blossom. Summit fourcornered.
N a t i v e o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
1. T h e Empalement.
2. The Chives detached from the Pointai, one
tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.