ERICA mutabilis. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
firica, antheris basi bicornibus, sub-exertis : 
floribus tubulosis, terminalibus, in umbellis ir- 
regularibus, inaqualiter purpureo coloratis : 
folia subulata, obtusa, hispida: caulis erectus, 
pedalis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis fruticosus: rami laxi, divaricati: ra- 
muli numerosi, erecto-patentes. 
Fora in ramulis ternata, adscendentia; in 
ramis quaterna et quina, ad basin plante re- 
curva; supra convexa, subtus sulcata; margine 
pilis longissimis obsita: quadam breviora, glan- 
dulosa: petiolis glandulosis. 
Frores terminales, in umbellis irregularibus, 
plerumque horizontaliter siti: pedunculi longis- 
simi, capillares, colorati, glandulis tecti, cum 
bracteis tribus lanceolatis, glandulosis. 
Catyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis 
lanceolatis, sulcatis, coloratis, glandulosis, ad- 
pressis. 
Corot tubulosa, costata, leviter pilosa ; im- 
primis saturate purpurea, denique pallidior. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria ; anthere 
bicornes, sub-exerta. 
Pistittum, Germen tiareforme, sulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonz Spei. 
Floret a Februario in Octobrem, 
REFERENTIA, 
1. Folium lente auctum, 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Flos. 
A. Stamina a Pistillo diduéta, anther3 uni 
lente auct4, 
- 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearu, with tips two-horned at their base, and 
just without the blossom: flowers tubular, ter- 
minating the flowers in irregular umbels of an 
unequal purple colour: leaves awl-shaped, ob- 
tuse, and harshly haired: stem upright, a foot 
high. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby: branches loose, and strad- 
dling ; smaller branches numerous, and between 
erect and spreading. 
Leaves in the smaller branches grow by threes, 
and are ascending: in the large branches they 
grow by fours and fives, and bend downwards on 
the lower part of the plant: they are convex on 
their upper surface, and furrowed beneath, with 
long hairs on their margins: some of them 
shorter and glandular: footstalks glandular. 
Frowers terminate the branches in irregular 
umbels mostly in a horizontal direction: foot- 
stalks very long, thread-shaped, and coloured, 
covered with glands, and furnished with three 
floral leaves, also glandular. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets larice- 
shaped, furrowed, coloured, glandular, and 
pressed to the blossom, 
Buossom tubular, ribbed, and slightly haired, 
of a deep purple at first; and afterwards paler. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads ; tips two- 
horned, and just without the blossom. 
Poinra. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and fur- 
rowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from February till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Flower. 
4, The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified, 
