ERICA Nivenia, longiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris aristatis, exertis, coherentibus : 
floribus terminalibus, umbellatis : “pedunculis 
longissimis: corollis longis, costatis, purpureis : 
foliis ternis: caule humili. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
SorrRuTex pygmeus, ramosissimus: rami et 
‘ramuli patentes. 
Fora patentia, terna, late-linearia, obtusa, 
subtus sulcata, marginibus revolutis pilis longis 
et glandulis obsitis. 
Frores ramos terminant in umbellis, patentes : 
pedunculis longissimis : bracteis tribus adpressis. 
Catyx tetraphyllus : foliolis angustis, apice 
glandulosis. 
Corota uncialis, pyramidalis, costata, pur- 
purea, sub apice inflata, ad basin attenuata: ore 
arctata, quod nigrum est: laciniis obliquis, re- 
volutis. 
Sramina octo capillaria: anthere aristate, 
exert, coherentes. . 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme, viride, ad 
basin nectariferum. 
Stigma concavum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
' Floret a mense Martii in Junium, 
REFERENTIA, 
I. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Flos. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum, anther unica lente 
aucta. 
4. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. . 
_ 5, Germen lente auctum. 
Stylus filiformis, exertus. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with bearded tips, without the blossom, 
and adhering together: flowers terminal, in um- 
bels: footstalks very long: blossom long, rib- 
bed, and purple: leaves by threes: stem low, 
DESCRIPTION. 
A pwarr shrub, very branching: the small 
and large branches are spreading. 
Leaves spreading, grow by threes, ~ broadly 
linear, and obtuse, furrowed beneath, with re-— 
volute edges that are beset with long hairs and 
glands. 
Frowers terminate the brauches in umbels, 
spreading: footstalks very long, with three floral 
leaves pressed to them. 
Empatementr four-leayed : leaflets narrow, 
and glandular at the point. 
Brossom an inch long, of a pyramidal form, 
ribbed, and purple, swelled near the end, and 
attenuated towards the base; narrowed at the 
mouth, which is black: the segments are ob- 
lique, and rolled back. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads: tips bearded, 
without the blossom, and adhering together. 
Pointa. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and green, 
Shaft thread- 
shaped, and without the blossom. Summit con- 
with honey-cups at the base. 
cave, 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till J une. 
REFERENCE, 
—_ 
. The Empalement magnified. 
A Blossom. 
be 
el 
The Chives and Pointal, one tip magni- 
fied. 
ae 
. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified, 
or 
- Seed-bud magnified. 
