ERICA globosa. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris inclusis, basi bicornibus. Stylus 
exertus. Corolla globosa, incarnata, umbellata, 
cernua. Pedunculi longissimi. Folia terna, 
spathulata, patentia, glanduloso-villosa. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis fruticosus, sesquipedalis. Rami et ra- 
muli numerosi, villosi, erecto-patentes. 
‘Foxia terna, spathulata, subtus carinata, supra 
plana; marginibus glandulosis, revolutis. 
Frorts in ultimis ramulis terminales, umbel- 
lati, cernui. Pedunculi longissimi, glanduloso- 
pilosi. 
Catyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum ; foliolis 
spathulatis, carinatis, glandulosis. 
Corot globosa, incarnata; oris laciniis ob- 
tusis, incuryatis. 
Sramina, Filamenta octo, capillaria ; antheris 
bicornibus, inclusis. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum, 
pilosum. Stylus filiformis, exertus, Stigma te- 
tragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Augusti in Noyembrem. 
REFERENTIA, 
1. Folium. 
2. Idem subtus lente auctum. 
3. Calyx et Corolla. 
4. Calyx lente auctus, 
5. Stamina et Pistillum. 
6. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 
7. Stamen unum lente auctum. 
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. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
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. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with tips within the blossom, and two- 
horned at the base. Shaft without. Blossom 
globular, flesh-coloured, umbelled, and nodding. 
Footstalks very long. Leaves by threes, spathula- 
shaped, spreading, and glandularly hairy. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby, a foot and a half high. The 
large and small branches are numerous, hairy, 
and between erect and spreading. 
Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, keeled be- 
neath, flat on the upper surface. The margins 
are glandular, and rolled back. 
Frowers terminate the small branches in um- 
bels, nodding. Footstalks very long, and glandu- 
larly hairy. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets spa- 
thula-shaped, keeled, and glandular. 
Bossom globular, flesh-coloured. The seg- 
ments of the border are obtuse, and turned in- 
wards. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads; tips two- 
horned, within the blossom. 
Portat. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, _ fur- 
rowed, and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, with- 
out the blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
_ Flowers from August till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The under side of the same, magnified. 
3. The Empalement and Blossom. _ 
4. The Empalement magnified. 
5. The Chives and Pointal, 
6. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 
7. A Chive magnified. 
8. Seed-bud and Pointak summit magnified. 
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9. Seed-bud magnified, 
