ERICA curviflora, rubra. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-exertis : floribus tu- 
bulosis, curvatis: pedunculis brevissimis. Folia 
quaterna. Caulis fruticosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis pedalis et ultra. Rami et ramuli nu- 
merosi, erecto-patentes. 
\ 
Foxia quaterna, glabra, linearia, obtusa. 
Fores ramulos terminant, solitarii, patentes, 
racemum sparsum formantes. Pedunculi bre- 
vissimi, bracteis tribus instructi. 
Catyx tetraphyllus: foliolis ad basin ovatis, 
dentatis, apice subulatis. 
Corotia curvata, clavata, pollicaris, rubra, 
limbo albicante: laciniis expansis. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria. An- 
there mutice, incluse. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis, exertus. Stigma concayum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
_ Floret a mense Julii in Januarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folii inferior pars lente aucta. 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Corolla. 
4, Stamina et Pistillum, anther un& lente 
aucta. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips just without the blos- 
, 
som. Flowers tubular, and curved. Footstalks 
very short. Leaves by fours. Stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem a foot or more high. The large and 
small branches are numerous, erect, and spread- 
ing. 
Leaves by fours, smooth, linear, and blunt- 
ended. 
Fiowers terminate the branches singly, 
spreading out, and forming a scattered spike. 
Footstalks very short, and furnished with three 
floral leaves. 
Empatement four-leaved: the leaflets at the 
base are ovate, toothed, and awl-shaped at the 
end. 
Bossom curved, club-shaped, an inch long, 
red, with a whitish border: segments expanded. 
Curves. Hight hair-like threads: tips beard- 
less, and within the blossom. 
Pornrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and fur- 
rowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without. Summit 
hollow. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from July till January. 
REFERENCE, 
1, A Leaf shown from the under side mag- 
nified. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Blossom, 
4, Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
