ERICA 
aristata. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Ertca, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; flori- 
bus umbellatis, sub-ampullaceis, lucidis, visco- 
sis, striatis; foliis quaternis et quinis, retortis, 
lucidis, aristatis; caule humili. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cautis fruticosus, vix pedalis, ramosus; rami 
et ramuli flexuosi, filiformes. 
Fouia quaterna et quina, sub-trigona, revo- 
luta, lucida, subtus sulcata. 
Frores in ramis terminales fasciculati, ple- 
rumque  quaterni; pedunculi longi, colorati, 
bracteis tribus lanceolatis instructi. 
Catyx tetraphyllum ; foliolis lanceolatis, yis- 
cosis, adpressis, 
Corotta inflato-tubulosa, ore arctata, saturate 
purpurea, pollicaria, lucida, laciniis rotundatis, 
expansis, albicantibus. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo. capillaria; an- 
theris inclusis, basi bicornibus. 
Pistiztum. Germen oblongum, sulcatum. 
Stylus exertus, albus. Stigma tetragonum, 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Novembris in Januarium, 
iterumque ineunte estate, 
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REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Folii inferior pars lente aucta. 
3. Calyx lente auctus, 
4, Stamina diducta, anther4 unica lente aucta, 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 
6. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Hears, with tips two-horned at their base, 
within the blossoms; flowers grow in umbels, 
nearly flask-shaped, shining, clammy, and striped; 
leaves by fours and fives, rolled back, shining, 
and bearded ; stem low. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, scarce a foot high, branching; 
the small and large branches are flexuose, and 
thread-shaped. 
Leaves by fours and fives, nearly three-sided, 
rolled back, shining, and furrowed beneath. 
Frowenrs terminate the branches in bunches, 
mostly in fours; footstalks long, coloured, and 
furnished with three lance-shaped floral leaves, 
EmpALemMent four-leaved; leaflets Jance- 
shaped, viscous, and pressed to the blossom. 
Bossom of an inflated tubular form, nar- 
rowed at the mouth, which is of a deep purple, 
an inch long, and shining ; the segments of the 
border are rounded, spread, and white, 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads ; tips within 
the blossom, and two-horned at their base. 
Poinrat. Seed-bud of an oblong form, and 
furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and white. 
Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from’ November till January, and 
again early in summen, 
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REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The underside of a leaf magnified. 
38. The Empalement magnified. 
4. The Chives detached, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
