“ERICA 
longiflora: 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-exsertis: floribus 
terminalibus, -longissimis, tubulosis, curvatis, 
aurantiis: foliis quaternis et quinis: caulis fru- 
ticosus, ramosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis erectus, fruticosus, bipedalis: ramulis 
numerosis, adscendentibus. 
Fou1a quaterna et quina, linearia, obtusa, 
glabra, subtus sulcata. 
Frores in ramulis terminales, patentes, in um- 
bellis binis vel quaternis: pedunculi breves, brac- 
- teis tribus ad basin. 
Carrs. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliis su- 
bulatis, glabris, supra canaliculatis, adpressis. 
’ Conoxta longissima, curvata, clavata, superne 
saturate aurantia, subtus flava: oris laciniis ex- 
pansis. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria, cur- 
vata, longitudine tubi. Anthere mutica. 
Pistittum. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Sty- 
lus filiformis, curvatus, exsertus. Stigma tetra- 
gonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Martii in Junium, 
REFERENTIA, 
1. Calyx lente auctus, 
2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anther und 
lente aucté. i 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearu, with beardless tips, just without the 
blossom: flowers terminal, and very long, tu-— 
bular, curved, and of a gold colour: leaves by 
fours and fives: stem shrubby, and branching. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem upright, shrubby, two feet high, with 
numerous small ascending branches, 
Leaves by fours and fives, linear, obtuse, 
smooth, and furrowed beneath. . 
Fiowers terminate the smaller branches, 
spreading, in umbels of two to four: footstalks 
short, with three floral leaves at the base. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved : leaflets awl- 
shaped, smooth, channelled above, and pressed 
to the blossom. 
Brossom very long, curved, .club-shaped, of 
a deep gold colour above, and yellow beneath : 
the segments of the border spreading. 
Cuives. Hight hair-like threads, whick are - 
curved, and the length of the blossom. Tips 
beardless, 
Pointat. Seed-bud club-shaped, furrowed. 
Shaft thread-shaped, curved, and without the 
blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement magnified, 
2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified, 
A. Seed-bud magnificd, 
