ERICA Echiiflora.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis inclusis, floribus verticillato
spicatis costatis viscosis, foliis J, fi, sivc scptenis
rigidis, marginibus asperis.
D E S C R I P T I O N •
SUFFRUTKX bipedalis, caulis flexuoso-ercctus,
ramis a d seen dent ib us, v erticillatis, ramulis simplicibus,
rigidis, irregulariter sulcatis.
FOLIA irregulariter verticillata, sed srepius .5, G,
vel septena, horizontals, vel parum recurvata et
rlexuosa, apicibus incurvis, rígida, et ad margines
asperiuscula, sordide viridia, supra linea elévala,
Bobtua sulcata, putiolis pnelonsja adpressis in sulculus
ramulorum.
FLORAS fere terminales, ¡n spicam dense verdcillati,
horizontales, pedunculis pubesecntibus, tribracteatis.
CALVX tetraphyllus, foliolis inferné ovatis, sed
superne longc acumínatis, viscosis, pubescenribus,
subtus sulcatis.
COROLI.A tubulosa, brevís, Ínflala, instar Kchium,
saturate carnea, costata, viscosa, launiís patentibus,
rotundatis.
STAMINA octo, capillaria; tnthenc mulica: inclusa:.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiarajforme, lanuginosum,
gtaiidulis S nectariferis; stylus filiformis; stigma
tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spei.
Floret a mense Februarii in Maium.
R1.FRRF.NTIA.
1. Calyx cum bractcis lente auctus.
2. Corolla.
fi. Stamina et Pistillum anthera unicá lente
auctá.
4. Germen et Pistilliun, stigmate lente aucto.
5. Germen lanatum, lente auctum.
S P E C I F I C C11A B A C I B B.
IIEATU, with beardless tips within the blossom,
flowers in whorled spikes ribbed and viscous, leaves
in fives, sixes or sevens, and rigid, with rough
margins.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
A SMALL shrub, two feet high, the stem flexuoscerect,
with ascending, whorled branches, and lesser
branches simple, rigid, and irregularly furrowed.
LEAVES irregularly whorled, but chiefly in fives,
sixes, or sevens, horizontal, or a little recurved
and flexuose, with incurved points, rigid, and at
the margins ruughisli, of a dingy green colour,
above marked by an elevated line, beneath channelled,
with very long foot-stalks pressed into the
little furrows of the branchlets.
FLOWERS almost terminal in a spike densely
whorled, horizontal, with peduncles pubescent,
and furnished with three floral leaves.
E M P A L I L M E N T four-leaved, with the leaflets
downwards egg-shaped, but upwardly far acuminated,
viscous, pubescent, and furrowed beneath.
BLOSSOM tubular, short, inflated, resembling an
Fchiu.ni, deep flesh-colour, ribbed, and viscous,
with spreading, rounded segments.
Citivns eight, hair-like ; tips beardless, within
the blossom.
POINTAL. Sccd-bud turban-shaped, woolly;
with eight honey-bearing glands; shaft threadshaped
; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the monih o f February till May.
II LIT; I: EHCB.
1. The Calyx with the floral leaves magnified.
2. A Blossom.
ii. The Chives and Pointal, with one tip magnified.
4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit
magnified.
5. The woolly Seed-bud, magnified.