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Erica sanguinolenta. Dark-flowered 



Heath. 



Class and Order. 



OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA, 



Generic Character. 



CaL 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens : limbo 4-fido. An- 

 therce ante} anthesin per foramina duo lateralia connexae. 

 Caps. 4 — 8-locularis, 4 — 8-valvis. 



Specific Character and Synonym. 

 Sect. VI. Parviflorae B. Antherae aristatae. Folia tenia. 



Erica sanguinolenta ; floribus terminalibus, foliis linearibus 

 mucronulatis, corollis cyathiformibus hirtis pedunculis 

 remote bibracteatis longioribus, stylo exserto. 



Erica sanguinolenta. Lodd. Cab. 468. 



A low thickly-branched shrub, seldom exceeding eight 

 inches in height. Leaves linear, mucronulate, smooth or 

 clothed with thinly scattered hairs, about one third of an 

 inch long, ternate. Flowers very numerous, of a very dark 

 blood colour, terminal on small branches, usually four toge- 

 ther, sometimes three, two, or only one. Peduncles shorter 

 than the corolla, with two minute bractes distant from the 

 calyx, whose leaflets are ovate, closely adpressed to the 

 cup-shaped corolla, covered on the outside with white glan- 

 dular hairs, very open at the mouth : border four-cleft, 

 erect. Anthers very dark, shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla. Style exserted : stigma capitate. 



Native of* the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers most part 

 of the Summer. Propagated by cuttings. Communicated 

 by Messrs. Loddiges and Sons. 



