ERICA mammosa, minor. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris aristatis, inclusis; stylus sub-ex- 
ertus; floribus verticillatis, pendulis, ventricoso- 
cylindricis supra basin constrictis; foliis qua- 
ternis, linearibus, glabris. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuis frutieosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; ra- 
mi verticillati, curvati. 
FoxtA quaterna, linearia, glabra, curvata; se- 
niora patentia, juniora adscendentia. 
Fores semi-unciales, in summitate ramorum 
verticillati, penduli; pedunculi colorati, bracteis 
duabus minutis remotis instructi. 
Catyx tetraphyllum ; foliolis lato-ovatis, acu- 
tis, apicibus coloratis, adpressis. 
Corotta purpurea, ventricoso-cylindrica, apice 
attenuata, ad basin constricta ; laciniis minutis, 
erectis, ovatis. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. An- 
there aristate, incluse. 
. Pisrittum. Germen tiareforme. Stylus fili- 
formis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Septembris in Decembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Corolla. 
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera und 
lente aucta. 
5. Germen et Stylus, stigmate aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearu, with bearded tips, within the blossom ; 
the shaft just without; flowers grow in whorls, 
hanging down, of a swelled cylinder shape pinch- 
ed in at the base ; leaves by fours, linear, and 
smooth. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high ; 
branches grow in whorls, and are curved. 
Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, and curved ; 
the older ones spreading, and the younger ones 
ascending. 
Frowers half an inch long, near the summits 
of the branches in whorls hanging down; foot- 
stalks coloured, having two small floral leaves at 
a distance from the cup. 
Empatemenr four-leaved ; leaflets of a broad 
egg-shape, pointed, the ends coloured, and press- 
ed to the blossoms. 
Buossom purple, of a swelled cylinder shape, 
tapered at the end and pinched in at the mouth; 
segments of the border are very small, upright, 
and oval. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, 
and within the blossom. 
Poryrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft 
thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit 
four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of September till De- 
cember. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Blossom. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified, 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
