ERICA infundibuliforniis.
C H A R A C T E R S P E CI F I C U S .
E R I C A antheris superno bicomibus, incluais :
floribus terminalibus, quaternis : longis tenuis
foliis ternis: cauiis gracilis.
D E 5 C R I P T I O .
CAULIS frutic'osus, debilis, pedalis et ultra:
rami et ramuli filiformes virgati.
FOLIA terna, linearía, obtusa, glabra, erecto,
patentia.
FLORES ad ápices ramnlorum qoaterni, pedunculisbrovissimis,
bracteis: tribu suhulatis
instructis: corollis lubidosis loniïis tenuis rubris:
oris Iaciniis equalis patentes supemealbis.
GERMEN tiaraforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec-
Habitat ad Caput Borne Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti in Novembrem.
R E F E R E X T I A .
I. Calyx.
•>. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ una lente
auctít.
3. Germen etPistillum stigmate lente aucto.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
H E A T H with tips two-horned on the upper
part, within the blossom: flowers terminal,
grow by fours, long and slender: leaves by
threes: stem slender.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM shrubby, weak, a foot or more high :
the small and large branches are thread-shaped,
and twiggy.
LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt, smooth,
erect, and spreading.
FLOWERS grows by fours at the ends of the
small branches: footstalks very short, and furnished
with three awl-shaped floral leaves:
blossoms lobular, long, slender, and of a red
colour: segments of the border spreading, equal
aud white on the upper surface.
SEED-BUD turban shaped, and furrowed, with
honey bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from Angus! till November.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Fmpalement,
2. Chives and Poinlal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Poinlal, summit magnified.
THIS fine species of Erica was raised from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr.
Nivcn: it bears a considerable resemblance to the E. tenuiflora, but diners in the specific character
of its antherae from all those we have hitherto figured : for when they are bearded, crested, or twohorned,
those appendages have invariably been at the base, but in this one instance, they are almost
at the top of the anthers, instead of the bottom.
It is a plant that flowers freely, and during the autumnal months makes a most elegant appearance.