ERICA globosa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anther is inclusis, basi bicornibus. Stylus
exertns. Corolla globosa, incarnata, unibellata,
rernua. Pcduiiculi longissimi. Folia tenia,
spalhulata, patentia, glanduloso-villosa.
DESCRIFTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, sesquipedalis. Rami et raniuli
numerosi, villosi, ereeto-patentes.
FOLIA terna, spathulata, subtus carinata, supra
plana ; marginibus gland ulosis, revolutis.
FLORES in ultimis ranmlis terminales, umbcllati,
cernui. Pedunculi longissimi, glandulosopilosi.
CALVX. Perianthium tetraphylluin; foliolis
spathulatis, carinatis, glandulosis.
COROLLA globosa, incarnata; oris laciniis obtusis,
incurvatis.
STAMINA, Filamenta oeto, eapillaria; antheris
bicornibus, inclusis.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiara?formc, sulcatum,
pilosum. Stylus fibformis, cxertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Angustí in Novembrem.
RE FERE XT I A.
1. Folium.
3. Idem subtus lente auctum.
3. Calyx ct Corolla.
4. Calyx lente auetus.
5. Stamina el Pistillum.
6. Stamina a Pistillo dlducta.
7. Stamen unuro lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with tips within the blossom, and twohorned
at the base. Shaft without. Blossom
globular, flesh-coloured, umbelled, and nodding.
Footstalks very long. Leaves by threes, spathufashaped..
spreading, and glandularlv hairy.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high. The
large and small branches are numerous, hairy,
and between erect and spreading.
LEAVES by threes, spalbuhi-shaped, keeled beneath,
flat on llie upper surface. The margins
are glandular, and rolled back.
FLOWERS terminate the small branches in umbels,
nodding. Footstalks very long, and glandularlv
hairy.
EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets spathula
shaped, keeled, and glandular.
BLOSSOM globular, flesh-coloured. The segments
of the border are obtuse, and turned inwards.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads • tips twohorned,
within the blossom,
POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed,
and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, without
the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.
REFERENCE.
I. A Leaf.
-i. The under side o f the same, magnified
3. The Empalement and Blossom,
4. The Empalement magnified.
5. The Chives and Pointal,
G. The Chives detached from the Pointal.
7. A Chive magnified.
6. Seed-hud and Pointal. summit magnified.
9, Seed-bud magnified,