ERICA mirabilis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, aniheris muticis, inclusis : floribus subsessilibus,
termmalibus: folns quaternis: caulis
fru tico BUS.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS pcdalis: ramuli numerosi, erecto-patcntes.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, obtusa, glabra.
FLORES subsessiles, terminales, fastigiati,
quaterui; corolla ventricosa, imprimis alba, demque
rosacea: ore arctato: lacinüs cordatis, undulalis,
ex pan sis, maxhnis.
GERMEN tiarajforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad
basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Junii ad Septembrem.
R E F E R E N T ! A.
1 . Calyx.
2 . Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una
lente aucta.
3. Germen et pistülum stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
ilowers nearly sessile and terminal: leaves by
fours: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high: the smaller branches numerous,
between erect and spreading.
LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt anil smooth.
FLOWERS nearly sessile, terminal, in bunches
of four together: blossom swelled nut, white at
first, hut dying otT a rose-colour: narrowed at
the mouth : segments of the border heart-shaped,
waved, spreading and large.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and
furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June to September.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalement.
2 . The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
THE Ei'ica mirabilis ma, be considered as an intermediate species between the Ericas Wnlkeria
tiie summer of 1824.