ERICA erubescens.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, a alliens muticis, incliisis. Corolla cylindracca,
pilis glandulosis densissime circumsessa;
imprimis alba, denique rosea. Calyx duplex,
imbricatus. Folia quatcrna, rigida, aculeata.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS erectus, sub-bipedalis. Rami pauci.
Ramuli numerosi, simp] ices.
FOLIA qualerna, laneeolata, aculeate,, sublus
sulco exarata; petioli adpressi.
FLORES in ramulis lerminales, quatcrui, nulantes;
peduuculi brevissimi.
CALYX duplex : exterior triphyllus, maximus,
late ovatus, sulcatus, squamosus, deutatus, interiori
adpressus, qui est tetraphyllus.
COROLLA rylindracea, pilis glandulosis densissime
cireumscssa sub-pollicaribus; os intus pilosuin,
laciniis rotundis, revolutis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria; anthers
muticas, inclusa:. Stylus filiformis, exertus.
Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a mense Martio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
J. Fulii iiifcrior pars lente aucta.
2. Catyx lente auctus.
3. Corolla lente aucta.
4. Stamina diducta; antbcra unica lente aucta.
5. Gernieu et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
6. Genuen leute auctuni.
SPECIFIC CHARACTEE.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom
Blossom cylindrical, closely beset with glandular
hairs ; white at first, and then dying off o f a rose
colour. Empalemeut double, and tiled, Leaves
by fours, harsh, and prickly.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM Upright, near two feet high. Large
branches lew. Smaller ones numerous, and
simple.
LEAVES by fours, lance-shaped, prickly, deeply
furrowed beneath The footstalks pressed to the
branches.
FLOWERS terminate the small branches by
fours, hanging down; footstalks very short.
EMPALEMEXT double: the outer one threeleaved,
very large, broadly egg-shaped, furrowed,
scaly, and toothed ; pressed to the inner
one, which is four-leaved.
BLOSSOM cylindrical, closely beset wilh glandular
hairs near an inch long; the inner part o f
the mouth hairy ; the segments round, and rolled
back.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless,
and within the blossom. Shall threadshaped,
and without Ihe blossom. Summit fourcornered.
Native of the Cape of ( i o o d Hope
Flowers from March till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The underside of a Leaf magnified
2. The Empalemeut magnified.
3. A Blossom magnified.
4. The Chives detached; one lip magnified
5. Seed-bud and Pointa!, summit magnified
6. Seed-bud magnified.