; ERICA calycina, major. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris cristatis, inclusis ; floribus um- 
bellatis ; corollis urceolatis, saturate carneis. Ca- 
lycis foliola corolla longiora; foliis ternis. Rami 
virgati. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuuis virgatus, pedalis: Rami et raimuli 
flexuosissimi. 
Fortra terna, lanceolata; trigona, supra plana, 
glabra, acuminata, adpressa, lete viridia. 
Frores in ultimis ramulis terminales, umbel- 
lati. Pedunculi carnei, bracteis tribus coloratis 
instructi. 
Catyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum : foliolis 
spathulatis, acuminatis, carneis, ad basin vires- 
centibus, corolla longioribus. 
Corot urceolata, saturate carnea,; ad basin 
pallida ; oris laciniis patentibus, acuminatis, 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria ; antheris 
cristatis, inclusis. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforrhe. Stylus sub- 
inclusus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem.. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 
2. Calyx magnitudine nature, 
3. Corolla. 
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 
5. Stamen unum lente auctum, 
6. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
7. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Hearn, with crested tips, within the blossom, 
The flowers grow in umbels. Blossom pitcher 
shaped, and of a deep flesh colour. The leaves 
of the cup are longer than the flower. Leaves by 
threes. Branches twiggy. 
DESCRIPTION: 
Stem twiggy, a foot high. The small and 
large branches are very flexuose. 
Leaves by threes, lance-shaped, three-sided, 
flat on the upper surface, smooth, sharp-pointed, 
pressed to the branches, and of a bright green. 
FLowers terminate the small branches in um= 
bels: Footstalks flesh-coloured, and furnished 
with three coloured floral leaves, 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved : leaflets spa- 
thula-shaped, sharp- pointed,  flesh- coloured, 
greenish at the base, and longer than the flower. 
Buossom pitcher-shaped, of a deep flesh co- 
lour, pale at the base. The segments of the 
border are spreading, and sharp-pointed. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads ; tips crested, 
and within the blossom. 
Porrar. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft 
within the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit 
four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from June till September. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement, natural size. 
3. A Blossom. 
4. The Chives and Pointal detached from the 
blossom. - ; 
5. A Chive magnified. 
6. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
7. Seed-bud magnified. 
