ERICA Banksia, purpurea. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, exsertis ; filamenta plana, 
longissima, conniventia; corollis cylindricis, 
luteolo-albis; oris laciniis saturate purpurels. 
Caulis decumbens. Folia terna. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Frurex pygmeus, sub-spithameus, rigidus, 
ramosissimus. 
Fou terna, sulfflata, trigona, mucronata ; 
subtus sulcata; supra plana, glabra, profunde 
viridia. 
Frores in ultimis ramulis, terni, cernui; pe- 
dunculis brevissimis. 
Catyx. Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyl- 
lum ; foliolis lanceolatis, rigidis ; interius tetra- 
phyllum, foliolis longioribus. 
Corotta cylindrica, luteolo-alba; oris laci- 
niis patentibus, saturate-purpureis. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo plana, coalescentia, 
tubum formantia; anthere mutice, exserte, pa- 
tentes. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme. Stylus fili- 
formis. Stigma tetragonum, concavum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Augusti in Octobrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Heatu, with beardless tips, without the blos« 
som; the threads are flat, very long, and closed 
together; blossom cylindrical, of a yellowish 
white ; the segments of the mouth are of a deep 
purple. Stem drooping. Leaves by threes, 
DESCRIPTION. 
A pwarr shrub, scarce a foot high, harsh, 
and very much branched. 
Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, three-sided, 
and mucronated ; furrowed beneath, and smooth . 
on the upper surface, flat, and of a deep green 
colour. 
Fiowers grow by threes at the ends of the 
small branches, hanging down, with very short 
foot-stalks. 
Empatement. Cup double, the outer three- 
_leaved; leaflets lance-shaped and harsh; the 
inner four-leaved, and longer than the outer, 
Buossom cylindrical, of a yellowish white ; 
the segments of the border spreading, and of a 
deep purple. 
Curves. Eight threads flat and close toge- 
ther, forming a tube ; tips beardless, without the 
blossom, and spreading. 
Pornrat. 
thread-shaped. 
Shaft 
four-cornered and 
Seed-bud turban-shaped. 
Summit 
hollow. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from August till October. 
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REFERENCE. 
. The Empalement magnified. 
A Blosioni. 
. The Chives and Pointal. 
. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
. Seed-bud magnified. 
