ERICA 
nitida. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis; corollis cry- 
stallinis, albidis, nitidis ; foliis ternis, lineari- 
bus, obtusis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cautis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, erectus; ra- 
mulis numerosis. 
Foxta terna, obtusa, linearia, subtus sulcata, 
erecto-patentia 
Frores in ramulis terminales, umbellati, terni 
vel quini, cernui; pedunculi breves, bracteis 
tribus calyciformibus, adpressis. 
Catyx tetraphyllus ; foliolis spathulatis, pa- 
tentibus, viscosis, adpressis. 
Coro.ta ovata, inflata, crystallina, alba, ni- 
tida, magnitudine pisi; laciniis revolutis. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria ; anthere 
cristate, incluse. 
Pistintum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum, 
pilosum. Stylus sub-exsertus. Stigma tetrago- 
num. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem. — 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium auctum. 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Corolla. 
4. Stamina et Pistillum, anther’ unici lente 
aucta. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with crested tips, within the blossom, 
of a crystalline white, and shining; leaves by 
threes, linear, and obtuse. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby, a foot and a half high, up- 
right ; with numerous small branches, 
Leaves by threes, obtuse, linear, furrowed 
beneath, and between erect and spreading, 
Fiowers terminate the small branches in um- 
bels of from three to five, and nodding ; foot- 
stalks short, with three floral leaves of the shape 
of the cup, and pressed to it. 
Empatement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets 
are spathula-shaped, spreading, clammy, and 
pressed to the blossom. 
Brossom egg-shaped, and swelled out, of a cry- 
stalline white, shining, and of the size of a pea; 
the segments of the border are reflexed. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads ; tips crested, 
and within the blossom. 
Pornrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
and hairy. Shaft just without the blossom. Sum- 
mit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
AE 
A Leaf magnified. 
nae 
The Empalement magnified. 
co 
. A Blossom. 
& 
The Chives and Pointal, one tip magni- 
fied. 
oH 
Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
2 
Seed-bud magnified, 
