E R I C A droseroides, minor.
C H A R A C T E R S P E C Ï F I C U S.
Eme v, antticris er is tat is, inclusis: íloribus terminal
¡bus, cernuit: foliis tcrnatis: caule fru ticoso,
erecto.
DESCUIPT10.
GAULIS spithamscus, fruticosus : ramis filiformibus,
sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.
FOLIA tenia, linearia, obtusa, margin ib us pilis
glandulosis, micantibua.
FLORES in uiubellïs terminal ib us, ceroui : corolla
UTceolata, Ize-te purpurea, cosíala, viscosa;
ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguíneo : pcdiinriili
longissimi pilis glandulosis tccti.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mcn.ee J u l ü in Octobrem.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1 . Folii pars inferior lente aucta.
g. Calyx lente auctus.
3. Antbera una lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate ¡ente aucto.
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R .
HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom:
flowers terminal and nodding: leaves by threes:
stem shrubby and upright.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM a span high and shrubby: branches long,
scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.
LEAVES by threes, linear and blunt, with shining
glandular hairs on the margins.
FLOWERS grow in terminal umbels, nodding:
blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour,
ribbed and clammy : the mouth is oblique,
narrowed, and of a deep blood colour: footstalks
very long, and covered with glandular hairs.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
R E F E R E N C E .
1 . The under side of a Leaf magnified.
2 . The Empalement magnified.
3. A Chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
OUR figure represents an entire plant from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from seed in the autumn
of 1 8 2 0 , after an absence of fifteen years; during which period we believe it has been lost to every
collection we are acquainted with. Itcan only be retained by care and attention to preserve it from
damp, of which it is much more susceptible than the generality of this extended genus.