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63. Erica Denticulata; Toothed Heath. Calices tooth- 

 letted ; corollas ovate, funnel-shaped ; style included. Stems 

 distorted, as in Common Heath; leaves crowded tog-ether, 

 spreading a little, subcylihdric, even; flowers in terminating 

 bundles; calix doubled ; tube of the corolla long, ovate, the 

 segments ovate, obtuse, spreading; anthers not longer than 

 the corolla; stia,ma obtuse. Native of the Cape. 



64. Erica Viscaria ; Clammy -flowered Heath. Flowers in 

 racemes; corollas bell-shaped, glutinous; style included. 

 Stem determinately branched ; leaves linear, erect, acute, 

 longer than the internodes, rugged at the ed>re ; bractes cali- 

 cine, rude, approximating; calix rude, awl-shaped, half the 

 length of the corolla, which is purplish, with the segments 

 erect and acute; antheroe bifid, with a cavity on the outside, 

 and very short; style shorter than the corolla, but twice as 

 long as the stamens, purple; stigma headed, four-lobed. It 

 flowers in March. Native of the Cape. 



Co. Erica Granulata ; Granulated .Heath. Calices subim- 

 biicate ; corollas globular ; style included ; leaves linear, 

 erect ; flowers terminating, few, pednncled ; calix scariose, 

 very short; colour of the corollas red; anthers rugged, bifid 

 at the tip, as it were two-horned ; stigma headed. This re- 

 sembles the 20th species. Native of the Cape. 



66. Erica Comosa ; Tufted-flmvered Heath. Flowers 

 heaped; corollas ovate-oblong; style included. Branches 

 heaped above the flowers; leaves linear, bluntish, erect; 

 flowers heaped, lateral, below the top of the stalk ; stigma 

 headed. Native of the Cape. 



67. Erica Sparmanni ; Sparmann's Heath. Leaves imbri- 

 cate, ciliate ; heads four- flowered ; corollas tubular, strigose- 

 hispid ; anthers subincluded. This species is remarkable 

 for having the flowering heads divided into four flowers ; before 

 these are elongated, the head appears globular and eehinate, 

 as in Achyranthes, from the very spreading; yellow bristles of 

 the leaves of the involucre and calix. Corollas extremely 

 hirsute, with a four-cleft mouth, the segments very short. 

 Observed by Sparmann far inland from the Cape. 



68. Erica Concinna ; Flesh-coloured Heath. Leaves in 

 sixes or thereabouts, smooth; flowers terminating, umbelled: 

 corollas cylindric, attenuated at the base. Branches smooth; 

 leaves on the branches in sixes, on the branchlets in fours, 

 petioled, erect, acerose, four lines in length; petioles smooth, 

 scarcely half a line long; flowers from three to six in an 

 umbel ; peduncles filiform, somewhat hairy, two lines in 

 length ; corolla flesh-coloured, somewhat villose on the out- 

 side, scarcely an inch long, the thickness of a fowl's quill ; 

 filaments smooth, a little shorter than the tube of the corolla; 

 anthers oblong, acuminate at the base, two-parted at top, as 

 far as the middle, where they are fixed to the filaments, they 

 are awnless, and of a brown colour; germen turbinate, con- 

 cave above, crenulate on the edge ; style red, the length of 

 the stamina ; stigma subcapitate, very dark red. It flowers 

 in September and October. Native of the Cape. 



69. Erica Massoni ; Tall Downy Heath. Leaves in eieht 

 rows, imbricate, pubescent; flowers capitate; corollas cylin- 

 dric, fig-shaped. Stems shrubby, filiform, covered all round 

 with leaves ; leaves in fours, imbricate in eight rows, verv 

 snort, elliptic, crowded, obtuse, ciliate, so that they appear 

 villose; flowers in a terminating sessile head, tipped with 

 green. Native of the Cape. 



70. Erica Rosaria ; Rose-scented Heath. Leaves in four 

 rows, obtuse, recurved, toothed ; antherae simple, included, 

 with long pores ; corollas ovate, viscid. The leaves resemble 

 those of ihe 39th species, but are .more distant and recurved. 

 Mowers aliout the ends of the branches, on mostly axiiljry, 

 long, viscid stalks, with two or three oblong, pellucid, concavj 



bractes towards their middle; the flowers droop a little, and 

 are remarkable for their frasrrant scent, resembling ottar of 

 roses. The calix-leaves are like ihe bractes, and about one- 

 third as long as the corolla, which is of aipale straw-colour, 

 ovate, inflated, viscid, its segm;its obtuse, crenate, but little 

 spreading; stamina about the length of tbt; culi-x, their fi!a- 

 menta purple at the summit, without any crnst or appendages; 

 antherae brown, oblong, with pores two-ihirds of itheir 'length; 

 germen turbinate, furrowed, smooth ; style twice as long as 

 the stamina; stigma capitate, dork-coloured. Imported lawiy 

 from the Cape. 



** Antherte awnless, standing out; Leaves in threes. 



71. Erica Plunkenetii ; Smooth-twigged Pencil-flowered 

 Heath. Calices simple ; corollas cylindric ; anthers very 

 long; style standing out. Leaves linear, crowded; flowers 

 peduncled, nodding ; calix shorter by half than the corolla, 

 awl-shaped, keeled; corolla long, with the mouth obscurely 

 four-cleft; stamens almost memoranaceous, linear, obtuse, 

 twice as long as the corolla. This resembles the following 

 species ; but the calix in this is simple, in that cartilaginoua 

 and imbricate. Native of the Cape. 



72. Erica Petiveri ; Downy^twigged Pencil-flowered Heath. 

 Calices imbricate; corollas acute; anthers very long; style 

 standing out. This is a brown shrub ; branches covered with 

 branchlets in threes, crowded, very short, pubescent, clothed 

 with squarrose leaves, -which are also crowded, awl-shaped, 

 sUbtrigonal, somewhat rugged at trie edge, patulous, or stand- 

 ing out at the tip ; flowers solitary at the end of the branch- 

 lets, drooping, on a short pubescent peduncle ; calix subear- 

 tilaginous, angular, imbricate, with similar but shorter bractes, 

 in threes ; corolla cylindric, three times as long as the leaves, 

 with a four-cleft, acute, yellow mouth. It flowers from Jan- 

 uary to March. Native of the Cape. 



73. Erica Nudiflora; Naked-flowered Heath. Brandies 

 tomentose ; corollas cylindric, scattered. Stem shrubby, 

 determinately branched, round, twisted ; bark covered with 

 a white nap, chinky, deciduous ; branchlets very many, erect, 

 leafy, many-flowered, very closely tomentose; flowers nu- 

 merous, axillary, peduncled, nodding a little; peduncles the 

 length of the leaves, capillary, pubescent ; bractes none ; 

 corolla bell-cylindric, half the length of the peduncles, almost 

 four times as long as the calix, smooth, four-cleft at the edge ; 

 segments small, blunt, upright; filaments erect, parallel, ca- 

 pillary, smooth ; stigma headed, blunt. Native of the Cape. 



74. Erica Bruniades. Flowers scattered ; corollas covered 

 by a woolly calix; style standing out. Leaves linear, remote, 

 patulous, with a few hairs scattered over them; the calioes, 

 clothed with a white wool, cover the whole subtruncate corolla. 

 Thunberg makes this to be the same with the 48th species. 



Native of the Cape. 



75. Erica Imbricata ; Imbricate Heath. Corollas bell- 

 shaped, covered with the imbricate calix; style standing out. 

 Flowers lateral, white; corolla covered with the white calix. 



Native of the Cape. 



76. Erica Umbellata ; Umbelled Heath. Leaves acerose; 

 corollas bell-shaped ; style standing out. This little shrub has 

 the habit of common Heath. Leaves short, smooth, with a 

 white line underneath ; umbellets naked, without an involucre; 

 calix compound ; corolla pale blue, angular; anthers gibbous, 

 tailed at the base. Native of Portugal. See the 12th species. 



Leaves in fours, or more. 



77. F.rieaPurpurascens; Purple Heath. Flowers scattered ; 

 corollas bell-shaped ; style standing out. Leaves in threes or 

 fours, hut on the upper branchlets in fives, according to 

 Srjyuier; oalix awl-shaped; corollas cylirrdric, Native of the 

 south of Europe. See the twelfth species. 



