ERICA mimdula.
CHAIIACTER SPECIFICUS.
Kun v, autheris uiuticis, inclusís : foliis qiialernis:
íloribus scssilibus, fastigiatis, tcrniinulibus:
frutes pygmaeus.
DESCRIPTIÜ.
CAL LIS fruticosu*, sj-ithaui.cn«, ercetus, raniosus:
rarauli nuiuerosi, adseendentes.
FOLIA quaterna, subtitata, lucida, su pira plana,
sublus sulcala.
FI.OIIES sessiles, creí ü', fasligiati, quatcnii, terminales
! corollis lubulosis, peí Incidís, ore arctato,
quod ornalum esl in modum Primilla*: lacinüs
cordatis, expansis, albis, subtus la*le rubris.
Habitat ad Caput Bonoe Spei.
Floret ámense Junio ad Septembrem.
REFEREXTIA.
1. Calyx.
2 . Anthera lente aucta.
S. Germen ct Pistillum, stigmale lente anclo.
4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blosiom :
leaves by fours: flowers sessile, fastrgiatc, and
terminal: a dwarf shrub.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and bushy:
small branches numerous and ascending.
LEAVES by fours, awl-shaped, shining, Hat on
their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS sessile, upright, fastigiate, and terminating
the branches by fours: blossoms tubular,
pellucid, narrowed atlhe mouth, which is ornamented
like a Cowslip : the segments of the border
are heart-shaped, spreading, and while, of a
bright red on the underside.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. Empaleiuent.
9. A Chive magnified.
3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
\ . Seed-bud magnified.
THE Erica mundula is a small neat shrub resembling the E. primuloides in its flowers, but different
in the leaves, which are by fours instead of fives: it is also a looscr-growing plant, and seems to he
a connecting link between that species, the E. infundibuliformis, E. tenuiflora, and E. Coventry.!,
but very distinct from either of them. The flowers in the early bud state have a very rich appearance,
from the deep bright red colour beneath the segments of the border, contrasted with the
dark shining green leaves. Our drawing represents an entire plant, from the Hammersmith collection.