ERICA Echiiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, floribus verticil- 
lato-spicatis costatis viscosis, foliis 5, 6, sive septe- 
nis rigidis, marginibus asperis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
SurrRuTEX bipedalis, caulis flexuoso-erectus, 
ramis adscendentibus, verticillatis, ramulis simpli- 
cibus, rigidis, irregulariter sulcatis. 
Fox irregulariter verticillata, sed seepius 5, 6, 
vel septena, horizontalia, vel parum recurvata et 
flexuosa, apicibus incurvis, rigida, et ad margines 
asperiuscula, sordide viridia, supra lined elevata, 
subtus sulcata, petiolis prelongis adpressis in sul- 
culos ramulorum. 
Fiorzs fere terminales, in spicam dense verti- 
cillati, horizontales, pedunculis pubescentibus, tri- 
bracteatis. 
Catyx tetraphyllus, foliolis inferne ovatis, sed 
superne longe acuminatis, viscosis, pubescentibus, 
subtus sulcatis. 
CoroL.a tubulosa, brevis, inflata, instar Echi- 
um, saturate carnea, costata, viscosa, laciniis pa- 
tentibus, rotundatis. 
Stamina octo, capillarid; antherze mutice in- 
clusze. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme, lanuginosum, 
glandulis 8 nectariferis; stylus filiformis ; stigma 
tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonz Spei. 
Floret a mense Februarii in Maium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 
2. Corolla. 
8. Stamina et Pistillum anther unica lente 
aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lanatum, lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hears, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
flowers in whorled spikes ribbed and viscous, leaves 
in fives, sixes or sevens, and rigid, with rough 
margins. 
DESCRIPTION. 
A sMALL shrub, two feet high, the stem flexuose- 
erect, with ascending, whorled branches, and lesser 
branches simple, rigid, and irregularly furrowed. 
Leaves irregularly whorled, but chiefly in fives, 
sixes, or sevens, horizontal, or a little recurved 
and flexuose, with incurved points, rigid, and at 
the margins roughish, of a dingy green colour, 
above marked by an elevated line, beneath chan- 
nelled, with very long foot-stalks pressed into the 
little furrows of the branchlets. 
FLowers almost terminal in a spike densely 
whorled, horizontal, with peduncles pubescent, 
and furnished with three floral leaves. 
EmpaLemENT four-leaved, with the leaflets 
downwards egg-shaped, but upwardly far acumi- 
nated, viscous, pubescent, and furrowed beneath. . 
Brossom tubular, short, inflated, resembling an 
Echium, deep flesh-colour, ribbed, and viscous, 
with spreading, rounded segments. 
Curves eight, hair-like; tips beardless, within 
the blossom. 
Ponta. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly ; 
with eight honey-bearing glands; shaft thread. 
shaped ; summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of February till May. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Calyx with the floral leaves magnified. 
2. A Blossom. 
8. The Chives and Pointal, with one tip mag- 
nified. 
4, The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit 
magnified, 
5. The woolly Seed-bud, magnified. 
