ERICA oppositifolia. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus ur- 
 ceolatis, albis: foliis oppositis, adpressis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cautis sesquipedalis, filiformis, gracilis: ra- 
muli conferti, numerosi, flexuosi. 
Fora opposita, alternata, brevia, obtusa, ad- 
pressa, supra concava, subtus sulcata, nitida: 
petiolis brevibus. 
Fores numerosi, in ramulis terminales, ple- 
rumque bini: pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis 
duabus. 
Canyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis 
ovato-acuminatis, albis, glabris, 
Corota alba, urceolata, ore arctata: limbo 
quadrilobo patente. 
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Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria recepta- 
culo inserta, Anthere mutica, inclusa, parve. 
Pistintum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum, 
viride. Stylus filiformis, Stigma tetragonum, 
, Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Augusti in Decembrem, 
REFERENTIA. 
1, Calyx. 
2. Corolla, 
3. Stamina a Pistillo Giducta, anther una 
lente aucté. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips within the blossom: 
flowers pitcher-shaped and white: leayes oppo- 
site, and pressed to the stem. 
DESCRIPTION, 
Srrm a foot and a half high, thread-shaped, 
and slender: the branches are crowded, nume- 
rous, and flexuose. 
Leaves grow opposite and alternate, are short, 
blunt-ended, and pressed to the branches, con- 
cave on their upper surface, and furrowed be- 
neath, shining, and with short footstalks, 
FLowenrs are numerous, terminating the smaller 
branches mostly by twos: peduncles very short, 
with two floral leaves. 
Empatemenr. Cup four-leaved: the leaflets 
are pointedly oval, white, and smooth. 
Brossom white and pitcher-shaped, narrowed . 
at the mouth, with a four-lobed spreading bor- 
der. 
Curves. Eight hair-like threads fixed into 
the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blos- 
som, and small. 
Poinrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
and green. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from August till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Blossom. 
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
A, Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
