E R I C A cruciformis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anihcris bicornibus, iocluau: floribus
quatcrnis, tub ulosis, brevibus : foüis qu ate ruis,
brevibus, linearibus : caule fruticoso, erecto.
DESCR1PTIO.
CAULIS petlalis, (Vuticosus: ramulis numerosis,
confertis.
FOLIA quaterna, Linearía obtusa, glabra, supra
plana, subtus sulcala.
FLORES qtiaterni, cruciformes: ramulis plcrurnque
tcrminalibus: cerolla urceolata, aurantia, lucida
: iaciuiis rotuudatis, rcflexis.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Junio ad Augustum.
REFERENTI \.
1. Calyx.
2. Stamen unicura lente auctuni.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
4. Germen lente auctum.
5. Flores varietatum duarum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH,with tips two-liorued, within the blossom:
flowers grow by fours, tubular, short and linear :
stem shrubby and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, and shrubby : the smaller
branches numerous and crowded.
LEAVES by fours, linear obluse, and smooth,
flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS grow by fours, cross-shaped, mostly
terminating the smaller branches: blossom jarshaped,
of a gold colour, and shining : segments
of the border rounded and reflexed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Chive magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Puintal, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud magnified.
5. Flowers of two varieties.
OUR drawing of this handsome little Erica was made at the nursery of Mr. Lee in the summer of
1819, where it had been recently raised from seed, with two others of a similar description too nearly
allied to require a separate figure. We have therefore added a flower of each, and hardly knew to
which of the three plants to give the preference. But as the specific title cruciformis was given to
them, we selected that for our figure whose inflorescence bore out the name with the most uniformity.