ERICA glutinosa minor.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis inclusis, corollis glutinosissimis,
vcrticillatis, horizontalibus, pallide viridibus,
senii-uncialibus, et costatis. Folia sena.
DBBOBIFTIO.
CAULIS erectus, bipedalis. Rami simplices, longi,
vertidllati.
FOLIA sena, linearis acuminata, glabra, Iasviter
sulcata, patentia.
FLORLS sub apicibus ramorum conferti, verticil-
Iato-horizontales. PeduncuU brevcs, bracteis tribus
calyci adpressis.
CALYX. Pcriandiium tutraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis,
viscosis, adpressis,
GOKOLL A cylindrica, semi-undalis, pallide viridis,
glulinosissinia, niuda et costata, oris laciniis
par um rellexis.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria ; ttdwtss
muticaj, inclusa*.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiarrerormc, sulcatum et
supernc sericcum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragon
um.
Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spei.
Floret a mcnsc Novembri ad Aprilem.
R B P I RENT I A.
1. Calyx lentc auctus.
•2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta ; anthera una lente
aucta.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lentc aucto.
4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossoms,
which are extremely clammy, in whorls, horizontal,
and of a pale green, half an inch long, and ribbed.
Leaves by sixes.
DESCRIPTION.
STU upright, two feel high. The branches are
simple, long, and whorled.
Lr.Avrs grow by sixes, are linear-pointed and
smooth, slightly furrowed, and spreading.
FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches,
pressed together in hnri/.nntal whorls. The footstalks
are short, having diree iloral leaves pressed
to the cup.
F.MPAI.EMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are
lanccshaped, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
BLOSSOM cylindrical, half an inch long, of a
pale green, very clammy, shining and ribbed, the
segments of the mouth slightly reflexed.
CHIVES. Fight hair-like threads; dps beardless,
and within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, furrowed
and silky at the upper part. Shaft thread-shaped.
Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of November till April,
R EFER FNCE.
1. The Empalemcnt magnified.
'2, The Chives detached from the Poinial; 001
tip magnified.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit
magnified.
I. The Scud-bud magnified.