ERICA Irbyana. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis: stylo 
subexerto: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis 
longissimis : corollis albis, ampullaceis, viscosis: 
foliis ternis, trigonis, subulatis. 
DESCRIPTiO. 
Cavtis pedalis, erectus: rami longi, sub- 
simplices, 
Fora terna, trigona, subulata, recta: apice 
mucronato, supra plano, subtus carinato. 
Fores terminales in umbellis quinis vel de- 
cem: cum pedunculis longissimis rubris, paten- 
tibus vel cernuis. 
Catyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis 
Janceolatis, carinatis, acutis, viscosis. 
Corot alba, ad basin carnea, glutinosissima, 
pollicaris, lucida, summatim cylindracea, ad 
basin inflata ; ore arctata, laciniis expansis, sub- 
ovatis. 
' Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria, tenuis- 
sima, torta: anthere basi bicornes, apice acumi- 
nate, incluse. 
Pistintum. Germen oyatum, sulcatum. Sty- 
lus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Idem ab infera parte depictum, dissectum, 
et lente auctum. 
8. Calyx et Bractex. 
A, Stamina et Pistillum, antherA unica lente 
aucta. 
5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto, 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hears, with tips two-horned at the base, within 
the blossom: shaft just without: flowers ter- 
minal: peduncles very long: blossoms white, 
flask-shaped, and clammy: leayes by threes, 
three-sided, and awl-shaped. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem a foot high, upright: branches long, 
and nearly simple. 
Leaves by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, 
and straight, with a mucronated point flat on 
the upper surface, and keeled beneath. 
Fiowenrs terminate the branches in umbels of 
five to ten flowers, with very long red footstalks, 
spreading or nodding. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved: leaflets lance- 
shaped, carinated, sharp-pointed, and viscous. 
Bossom white, flesh-coloured at the base, 
and extremely glutinous, an inch long, and 
shining, cylindrical on the upper part, and 
swelled out at the base, narrowed at the mouth, 
with the segments spreading, and nearly egg- 
shaped, 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads, very slender 
and twisted: tips two-horned at the base, 
pointed at the end, and within the blossom. 
Porntat. Seed-bud egg-shaped, and fur- 
rowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without 
the blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from June till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The same shown from the under side, cut 
in two, and magnified, 
3. The Empalement and floral leaves. 
A. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Pointal and Seed-bud, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
