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determinate wandlike brandies ; leaves linear, three-sided, 

 erect, even, longer than the internodcs, sharpish; flowers in a 

 sort of spike, white, with lanceolate white bractes on the pe- 

 duncle; calix scariose, white, ovate, acuminate, half the length 

 of the corolla, which is white, with the belly hyaline, and the 

 border four-parted, narrowed, acute, funnel-form ; antherw 

 bifid, obtuse, short; style shorter than the corolla. Native 

 of the Cape. 



47. Erica Spumosa; Six-anyled Heath. Corollas in 

 threes, covered by-a common calix ; style standing out. A 

 small shrub, with narrow branehlets ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 three-sided, channelled; flowers terminating, nodding, sessile; 

 calices globular, imbricate with roundish scales, keeled, and 

 bent in at the tip, blood- red. Native of the Cape. 



48. Erica Capitata; Woolly Heath. Flowers sessile; co- 

 rollas covered with a woolly calix ; antherae middling. Stem 

 seldom erect, commonly decumbent, smooth, flexuose, fili- 

 form ; branches filiform, flexuose, villose ; branchlets capillary, 

 frequent, tomentose ; leaves ovate, spreading, rough with long 

 hairs; flowers at the ends of the extreme branchlets, peduncled, 

 one, two, or three together. This species is known by its globu- 

 lar flowers, covered with a greenish-yellow lanugo. It flowers 

 in April, and continues till July. Native of the Cape. 



49. Erica Melanthera ; Black-anthered Heath. Corollas 

 bell-shaped, longer than the coloured calix; antheree middling; 

 style standing out. Stem shrubby, flexile ; leaves linear, 

 obtuse, even, patulous; flowers terminating, subumbelled, 

 scattered in close parcels, nodding a little ; peduncles the 

 length of the corolla, purplish; bractes lanceolate, alternate, 

 coloured ; calrx hlood-red, obovate, more in breadth than 

 length, keeled, with a dagger-point at the tip ; corolla bell- 

 sftlver-shaped, blood-red ; tube the length of the calix ; border 

 spreading, generally longer than the tube ; the segments 

 roundish, ovate ; anthers dark-coloured, bifid, the length of 

 the border. Native of the Cape. 



50. 'Erica Thunbergii ; Thwiberg's Heath. Corollas flat, 

 with a globular tube ; antherse middling ; style standing out. 

 Stem rufescerrt, round, seldom branched ; leaves linear, even, 

 sessile, acute, generalty pressed close; flowers terminating, 

 peduncled; bractes two, alternate, scariose, lanceolate. This 

 is a beautiful species, conspicuous for its globose white tube 

 and large deep-orange limb. Native of the Cape. 



51. Erica Absynthoides ; Wormwood Heath. Corollas 

 ovate, bell-shaped; style standing out; stigma funnel-shaped. 

 This shrub is panicled, and grows to the same height as 

 Wormwood; stem rufous; branches in threes; leaves linear, 

 gibbous on the outside, subhirsute ; flowers at the ends of the 

 branchlets; corollas pale; anthera very dark purple, bifid, 

 within the mouth of the corolla ; stigma purple, four-cleft. 

 Thunberg informs us, that this species has four varieties, viz. 

 1. With a wandlike stem, and branches and leaves very hir- 

 sute and rugged. 2. With a wandlike hirsute stem and 

 branches, and wrinkled villose patulous leaves. 3. With a 

 panicled stem, very short branchlets, and the leaves a little 

 rugged and hirsute. 4. With a panicled stem, longer fasti- 

 giate branchlets, and the leaves a little rugged and smooth. 

 Native of the Cape. 



52. Erica Ciliaris ; Ciliated Heath. Racemes pointed one 

 vay ; corollas ovate, fig-shaped ; style standing out. This 

 plant is suffruticose, two feet high ; leaves spreading very 

 much, sessile, ovate, acute, reflex, and ciliate on the edge ; 

 raceme terminating, whorled by threes ; style almost twice as 

 long as the corolla. It flowers from July to September. 

 Native of Spain and Portugal. See the twelfth species. 



53. Erica Hispidula; Hispid Heath. Stem hispid; leaves 

 about three, ovate, acute, ciliate ; corollas roundish. Stems 



decumbent, half a foot high, strigose or hairy ; leaves subses- 

 sile, horizontal, patulous, even; flowers small, bull-shaped, 

 bent towards the ground, scattered thinly ; style longer than 

 the corolla. Native of the Cape. 



54. Erica Petiolata ; Rosemary-leaved Heath. Leaves ob- 

 long, petioled; corollas in threes, ovate, the length of tin- 

 calix ; autht-nr standing out a little; style standing out. Stem 

 round, flexuosi-, decumbent, rijjid, smooth; Imtnchi-s scat- 

 tered, opposite, -or by threes, almost erect, bent in, flexuose, 

 tomentose at top; flowers terminating, iimhelled, on very 

 short tomentose peduncle*. It flowers from March to June. 

 Native of the Cape. 



55. Erica Leucanthera; White-anthered Heath. Flowers in 

 threes; calix white; corolla bell-shaped; antheroe and style 

 standing out. Stem erect, smooth, a foot high mid more ; 

 branches commonly in threes, pubescent, erect, wandlike; 

 branchlets scattered, very frequent, filiform and capillary, pu- 

 bescent, erect, leafy ; leaves three-cornered, obtuse, pressed 

 close, smooth, with a very slender groove underneath ; flowers 

 on very short peduncles, erect. This is distinguished by its 

 white corolla, and awnless, projected, white anthers. Native 

 of the Cape. 



Leaves in fours, or more. 



56. Eiica Tubiflora; Tube-flowered Heath. Leaves subci- 

 liate ; corollas club-fig-shaped ; antherse and style included. 

 Leaves linear, even, the upper ones ciliate; flowers terminat- 

 ing, solitary, sessile ; corollas purple, acuminate, pubescent, 

 several times longer than the calix; the segments lanceolate ; 

 style scarcely projected. Native of the Cape. 



57. Erica Curvinora; Curve-lowered Heath. Leaves smooth; 

 corollas club-fig-shaped ; antherse and style included. 

 Native of the Cape. 



58. Erica Coccinea; Scarlet Heath. Calices hirsute; 

 corollas club-fig-shaped ; anthers subincluded ; style included ; 

 flowers copious; corollas pubescent. Native of the Cape. 



59. Erica Conspicua ; Long-tubed Yellow Heath. Leaves 

 smooth ; corollas cylindric, curved, very long, hairy, with a 

 revolute border; anthers subincluded ; style standing out. It 

 flowers from May to August. Native of the Cape. 



60. Erica Cerinthoides ; Honeywort-Jiowered Heath. Co- 

 rollas club-fig-shnped ; stigma included, cruciate. Branches 

 compound; leaves oblong, convex, even, grooved underneath, 

 ciliate with spinules; flowers large, heaped on the side into 

 a sort of head, sessile, pubescent; calix rough with white 

 hairs, as it were doubled ; corolla bright blood-red, rough 

 also with white hairs, having the mouth obscurely f->r-cleft. 

 It flowers most part of the year. Native of the Cape. 



61. Erica Fasligiata; Pointed Heath. Corollas salver- 

 shaped, in bundles; style included. This is a small shrub 

 with even branches, streaked in four rows ; leaves linear, acu- 

 minate, three-sided, even, rugged about the edge, erect, the 

 length of the internodes, but the upper ones longer ; flowers 

 erect, fastigiate, terminating; calix similar to the leaves ; co- 

 rolla with a cylindric patulous tube, a little longer than the 

 leaves; border flat, red above, white underneath, the four 

 segments subcordate ; stamina shorter than the corolla ; an- 

 thers scarcely emarginate. Native of the Cape. 



62. Eri?a Cubica; Square Heath. Calices four-cornered; 

 corollas bell-shaped, acute; style included. Stem shrubby, 

 determinately branched ; leaves spreading, linear, acute, 

 longer than the internodes, slightly incurved, on white peti- 

 oles; flowers terminating, corymbed, on snbtomentose pe- 

 duncles, having bristle-shaped bractes in the middle; calix 

 scariose, with the leaflets obcordate, 'keeled, and bent in ; co- 

 rolla half four-cleft, purple, with a pale base, twice as long a* 

 the calix; stigma obtuse. Native of the Cape 



