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ERICA ardens. 
- Sealing-wax Heath. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Em (nuperids Exicex.) Justieu gen. 159. 
Div. I. Germen superum. 
ERICA, Supra vol. ì. fol. 6. 
Diz. V. Breviflore, Corolle longitudine quartam uncie partem su- 
perantes, nec semunciá longiores: Tubus calyce longior. Dryander 
in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 390. 
Subdiv. A. Corolla tubus subglobosus. Anthere cristate in omnibus 
preter odoratam. Id. loc. cit. ] ' 
E. ardens, bracteis duabus calyci proximis; tertia remota, Dryander 
lor. cit. ; 
Erica ardens. Andrewss heaths. vol. 2. 
Fruticulus dumosus humilis elastico-rigens. Folia terna, decussato-se- 
Jeria, confertiuscula, nec densa, seniora saturat? viridia divaricato-recw 
Juniora pruinato-o; imbricato-erecta, cuncta petiolata, crassa, rigi 
$ partem uncia longo, lanceolato-linearia, â supino  planiwicula, pri od 
lata, glabra, marginata cartilagine tenuissimá subtilitór serrulatá, ord exinda 
veflezá introrsüm declivi discum argenteo-candicantem dorsi. circumsepiente : 
petiolus erectus, ligulatus, firmus, basi gibbosus, 9-&-plo brevior. Flores 
terminales ramulorum brevium lateralium ramos inferis ambientium, suMerno- 
cernua, urceolato-ovata,. brevi collo parim arctata, ore ampliasculo: aperta g 
limbus brevis, erectus, laciniis rotundatis, transversim. latioribus. Stam. in- 
clusa ; fil. ligulato-Jinearia, attenuata, complanata, alba, intra ventrem corolla 
repressa cum flezurá anfraciuosá; anth, ferruginea, cristata. Germ. oblato- 
rotundum, essum, virens, glabrum, 8-torosum, basi annulo giandulom 
viridi 8-punctato cinctum. Stylug basi bulbosus, teres, robustus, erectus, albi- 
dus, equans corollam : stigma nigricans, obiusum, obsolet? 4-fidum. 
A species now pretty common in the collections round 
London, where it blossoms towards the end of March. Its 
source, as.well as of the far greater part of its numerous 
ornamental congeners, ìs the Cape of Good Hope. Intro- 
duced by Mr. William Rolliston in 1800. 
A dwarf bushy elastic shrub. Leaves in threes, decus- 
sated, six-ranked, near, not close, older omes of a dark 
deep green colour, outstretched and recurved, younger ones 
imbricated, frosted; the whole petioled, hard, somewhat 
