ERICA Broadleyana. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: flores solita- 
rii, penduli: pedunculi longi: corolla metule- 
formis: folia terna: caulis erectus, fragilis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis fragilis, sesquipedalis, erectus, fruti- 
cosus, ramulis numerosis. 
Fort terna, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra, 
fasciculata. 
Frores solitarii, penduli, in medio ramorum 
spicam laxam formantes: pedunculi longi, co- 
lorati: bracteis tribus infra minutis, 
Catyx tetraphyllus: foliolis lanceolatis, ad- 
pressis. 
Corotta metuleformis, rubro-purpurea: la- 
ciniis exiguis, erectis, luteis, 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria: an- 
there mutice, incluse. 
Pistirtum. Germen oblongum, leviter sul- 
catum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filifor- 
mis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonz Spei. 
Floret in mensibus autumnalibus. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherd un4 
lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heats, with beardless tips, within the blossom: 
flowers solitary, hanging down: footstalks long: 
blossom skittle-shaped: leaves by threes: stem 
upright and brittle. 
" DESCRIPTION. 
Srem brittle, a foot and a half high, upright, 
and shrubby, with numerous small branches, 
Leaves by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, 
smooth, and bundled. 
Fiowers grow singly, hanging down, and 
forming a loose spike about the middle of the 
branches: footstalks long, and coloured, with 
three minute floral leaves on the lower part. 
Empatement four-leaved : leaflets lance- 
shaped, and pressed to the blossom. 
Bossom skittle-shaped, of a red purple co- 
lour: the segments of the border are small, up- 
right, and yellow. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads: tips beard- 
less, and within the blossom. 
Pointau. Seed-bud oblong, lightly furrowed, 
with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread- 
shaped, without the blossom. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the autumnal months. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified, 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
