ERICA lanuginosa. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris barbatis inclusis, corollis axilla- 
ribus declinatis tomentosis acute oviformibus, verti- 
cillis foliorum ternatorum ciliatorum distinctis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
SuFFRUTEX pygmeus, at robustulus, subpedalis, 
erectus, ramis plerumque simplicibus, vix patulis. 
Foi ternata, in verticillis distinctis, parum de- 
clinata, lanato-ciliata, subtus sulcata. 
Fiores axillares, sepius solitarii, subsessiles, 
primo nutantes, demum cernui. 
Catyx duplex, exterior minor, 3-phyllus, foliolis 
adpressis, ovatis acutis, extus convexis, carinatis et 
tomentosis: interior tetraphyllus, foliolis ut in ex- 
teriore, at plus duplo majoribus. 
Coro.ia quadrifida, magna, ovata, subacuta, 
inflata, tomentosa, albido-lutescens, basi fusco-pur= 
purascens, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, convergentibus, 
obtusis. 
Sramina octo, capillaria, basi latiora, 4: interi- 
ora erecta, 4 exteriora perflexuosa ; antherze barbatze, 
inclusz. 
PistitLum. Germen tiaraeforme: stylus filifor- 
mis: stigma tetragonum, 
Habitat ad Caput Bonz Spei. 
Floret a mense Octobris ad Januarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx duplex. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Eadem expansa. 
4, Stamina et Pistillum. 
5. Stamen exterius lente auctum. 
6. Pistillum, stigmate diducto lenteque aucto. 
7. Germen tiareeforme lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with bearded tips within the blossom, 
‘blossoms axillary bent downwards woolly and acutely 
egg-shaped, with the whorls of  ternate ciliated 
leaves distinct. 
DESCRIPTION. 
A pwarF shrub, but stoutish, scarcely a foot 
high, erect, with chiefly simple, scarcely spreading 
branches, 
Leaves in threes, in distinct whorls, a little bent 
downwards, lanately-ciliated, and furrowed beneath. 
FLowers in the bosoms of the leaves, often soli- 
tary, nearly sessile, at first nodding, finally cernuous. 
EmpaLeMENT double, outer the smallest, 3. 
leaved, with the leaflets close-pressed to the blossom, 
egg-shaped, acute, outwardly convex, keeled, and 
woolly : interior four-leaved, with the leaflets as in 
the exterior one, but above twice as large. 
Buossom four-cleft, large, egg-shaped, acutish, 
inflated, woolly, of a dingy yellow-white, purply- 
brownish at the base, with the segments egg-lance- 
shaped, converging, and obtuse. 
Cuives eight, hair-like, broader at the base, 4 
interior upright, 4 exterior very much bent; tips 
bearded, within the blossom. 
Porat. Seed-bud turban-shaped : shaft thread- 
shaped : summit four-angled. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of October to January. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The double Empalement. 
2. A blossom. 
3. The same expanded. 
4. The Chives and Pointal. 
5. One of the exterior Chives magnified. 
6. The Pointal, with the summit detached and. 
magnified. 
7- The turban-shaped stigma magnified. 
