ERICA minutaellora.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris muticis, subinclusis : stylo exerto
: summitate magna, concava : íloribus parvis,
axillaribus : fbliia quaternis : caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS pedalis et ultra, erectas, flexuosus :
ramulis verticillatis, adscendentibus, filiformibua.
FLORES in summis ramulornm paniculali,
plerumque bini, axillares : coro lia campan ulata,
purpurea, minuta : calyce adpresso.
FOLIA qnaterna, linearía, longa, obtusa, glauca,
et patentia.
GERMEN liaroeforme, sulcatum, tomentosum,
ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput lîonoe Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
R E F E R E S TIA.
1. Flores duo.
'1. Calyx lente auetus.
3. Flos lente auetus.
4. Germen et Pistilluin, stigmate lente aucto.
r3. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
I I EATH with beardless tips just within the blossom
: shaft without: summit large and hollow:
flowers small, axillary : leaves by fours: stem
shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot or more high, upright, and flexuose
: the smaller branches grow in whorls, ascending,
and thread-shaped.
FLOWERS grow in loose spikes near the ends
of the branches, mostly in twos, from the axilla;
of the leaves : blossom bell-shaped, purple,
and very small : em pa le ment pressed to them.
LEAVES by fours, linear, long, blunt-ended,
glaucous, and spreading.
SEED-BUD (urban-shaped, furrovi cd, downy,
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing
nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
R E F E R E N C E .
I. Two flowers.
y. Enipaleinent magnified.
3. A Flower magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
.'"). The Seed-hud magnified.
This very small-flowered Erica was first raised at the Hammersmith Nursery, from Cape seed, in the
summer of 1822, and was then called alro or viridipurpurea, neither of which are characteristic of
the plant, which furnishes when in bloom a very minute but good specific character ; and although
not specious, it may be regarded as a curious and interesting species.