ERICA erubescens. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Frica, antheris muticis, inclusis. Corolla cy- 
‘lindracea, pilis glandulosis densissime circum- 
sessa ; imprimis alba, denique rosea. Calyx du- 
plex, imbricatus. Folia quaterna, rigida, acu- 
leata. 
DESCRIPTIO. a 
Cavuzis erectus, sub-bipedalis. Rami paiisci. 
Ramuli numerosi, simplices. 
Foxta quaterna, lanceolata, aculeata; subtus 
sulco exarata ; petioli adpressi. 
Frores in ramulis terminales, quaterni, nu- 
tantes ; pedunculi brevissimi. 
Catyx duplex: exterior triphyllus, maximus, 
late ovatus, sulcatus, squamosus, dentatus, inte- 
riori adpressus, qui est tetraphyllus. 
Cororta cylindracea, pilis glandulosis den- 
sissime circumsessa sub-pollicaribus ; os intus pi- 
losum, laciniis rotundis, revolutis. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria; an- 
there mutice, inclusw. Stylus filiformis, exer- 
tus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Martio in Julium. 
REFERENTIA. 
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. Folii inferior pars lente aucta. 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Corolla lente aucta. 
A. Stamina diducta ; anther unic4 lente aucti. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
Hearu, with beardless tips, within the blossoni: 
Blossom cylindrical, closely beset with glandular 
hairs ; white at first, and then dying off of a rose 
colour. Empalement double, and tiled. Leaves 
by fours, harsh, and prickly. 
DESCRIPTION: 
Srem upright, near two feet high. Large 
branches few. Smaller ones numerous, and 
simple. 
Leaves by fours, lance-shaped; prickly, deeply 
furrowed beneath. The footstalks pressed to the 
branches. 
FLowers terminate the small branches by 
fours, hanging down ; footstalks very short. 
Empatement double: the outer one three- 
leaved, very large, broadly egg-shaped, fur- 
rowed, scaly, and toothed; pressed to the inner 
one, which is four-leaved. 
Bossom cylindrical, closely beset with glan- 
dular hairs near an inch long ; the inner part of 
the mouth hairy ; the segments round, and rolled 
back. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads ; tips beard- 
less; and within the blossom. Shaft thread- 
shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope: 
Flowers from March till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The underside of a Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Blossom magnified. 
4. The Chives detached ; one tip magnified. 
5. ‘Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
