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Trica BUCCINUFLORA. TRUMPET-FLOWERED 
| HEATu. = 
EEEREEE EK EEE EEE ERE RE 
Class and Order. 
OctanpriA Monoeynia. 
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| Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. persistens: limbo 4-fido. Anthere 
ante anthesin per foramina 2 lateralia connexe. Caps. 
4—8-locularis, 4—8-valvis. 
Specific Character. 
‘Sect. 11. Longiflore. Subdiv. C. Anthere mutice. Folia 
quaterna. Flores terminales, pauci (1—8). 
Erica bucciniflora : floribus subquaternis, bracteis a calyce 
remotis, foliis quaternis linearibus ciliatis. 
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_, Descr. Stem shrubby, in our specimen half a foot high, 
full of branches and twiggy, the branches spreading. 
Leaves by fours, linear, pointed at the top, beset with 
hairs at the edges, flat above, furrowed beneath, with ‘ve 
short footstalks pressed to the branches. Flowers terminal, 
‘Stowing by fours and sixes at the ends of the branches, 
with short red hairy foot-stalks, and furnished with two 
_ bractes at their base. Calyx four leaved : leaflets 
“‘nce-shaped, sharp at the point and keeled. Corolla trumpet- 
Shaped and slender, the segments of the border spreading, 
| and very white; the tube of a flesh colour. Stamens eight: 
Filaments hair-like. Anthers beardless, included within 
the tube of the blossom. Germen club-shaped and fur- 
‘owed. Stigma four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, near the Roodezands 
jountains, where it was found by Mr. Burcuatt. Flowers _ 
‘om May to September. } 
i We are indebted to Epwarp Rupee, Esq. FRS. AS. and 
“ author of the Plante Guianenses, for the res 
