ERICA aurea, flore pallido. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis: floribus 
verticillatis: corollis cylindraceis, luteis: foliis 
senis, linearibus: caule erecto, fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO; 
Cautts fruticosus, pedalis, sub-erectus: ramis 
patentibus. 
Four sena, linearia, patentia, apice incur- 
vata: petiolis longis. 
Frores horizontaliter yerticillati, prope ra- 
morum summitatem: pedunculis brevissimis. 
Caryx. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis 
lanceolatis, cum bracteis tribus ad pressis, 
Coroiia cylindracea, . luteolo-aurea, apice in# 
flata; oris laciniis magnis, albicantibus, et pa- 
tentibus. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria: antheris 
muticis, stb-inclusis. 
Pistirrum. Germen_ tiareforme, sulcatum, 
ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma 
tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem. 
REFERENTIA.: 
i. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anther& und 
lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER: 
Hearu, with beardless tips just within the blos- 
som: flowers grow in whorls: blossom cylin- 
drical and yellow: leaves by sixes, and linear : 
stem upright and shrubby. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
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Srem shrubby, a foot high, nearly upright : 
branches spreading, 
Leaves by sixes, linear, spreading, and turn- 
ing inwards at the points: footstalks long. 
Fiowers grow horizontally in whorls near 
the summits of the branches: footstalks very 
short. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance- 
shaped, with three floral leaves pressed to them, 
Brossom cylindrical, of a yellow gold colour, 
swelled at the end: segments of the border large, 
whitish and spreading. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads: tips beard- 
less, and just within the blossom. 
Pornrat, Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread- 
shaped. Summit four-cornered, 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from June till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement magnified. 
2. A Blossom. 
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
