ERICA decora.
CHARACTER SPECÏFICUS.
ERICA, antlieris muticis, incluais: floribus axillaribns,
spicatis : corollis campanulatis, costatis,
•atúrate carneie, dopendentibus : foliis senis, arcuatis,
obtusis : caule gracili.
DESC&IPTIO.
G A U L I S frulicosus, sesquipcdalis, sub-erectus,
gracilis: rami el r.iimdi vcrticîlbiti.
FOLI* erna, linearía, ob l usa, ármala, pc Lio lis
Ion gis adprcssis.
FLORES spicali, laxi, in medio ramulorum,
axillares, dependentes : pedunculi longí, colorati.
C A L Y X . Pcrianthium tetraphvllum : foliolis
lanceola!is, bracteis tribus calycibus adprcssis.
COROLLA campanulata, costata, saturate carnea:
oris laciniis reflexis,
STAMINA. Filamenta octo linearía: anthera:
mutica?, inclusa*.
P I S T I L I . U M . Germen corona*forme, pubescen
», alhom. ad basin nectariferum. Stylus subinehtsus
filiformis. Strgma tetragon um.
Habitat ad Caput Bona* Spei.
Floret a meiise Novembris in Januarium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina lente aucta.
4. Germcn et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
5. Germcn lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, witli beardless tips, within the blossom:
the flowers grow from the footstalks o f the leaves
in spikes : blossom bell-shaped, ribbed, o f a deep
flesh colour, and hanging down: leaves by
sixes, bowed, and blunt-ended : stein slender.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high, nearly
upright, and slender : the large and small
branches grow in whorls.
LEAVES by sixes, linear, blunt, and bowed,
with long footstalks pressed to the stem.
FLOWERS g r ow in Isooe spikes about the middle
of the brauches from the footstalks of the leaves,
and hang down : footstalks long, and coloured.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved : leaflets lanceshaped,
with three floral leaves pressed to the
cup.
BLOSSOM bell-shaped, ribbed, and of a deep
flesh colour: the segments of the border are
bent back.
CHIVES. Eight linear threads; tips beardles-:,
and within the blossom.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud crown-shaped, downy,
and white, with honev-cups at the base. Shaft
just within the blossom, and thread-shaped.
Summit four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from November till January.
REFEREXCE.
1. The Empalement magnified.
2. A Blossom.
3. The Chives magnified.
4. Seed-hud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.