ERICA pellucida. 
CHARACTER- SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus tubu- 
lato-ventricosis, pilosis, costatis, pellucidis, albis ; 
foliis quaternis, aculeatis; caulibus gracilibus, 
hirsutis, ramosissimis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis gracilis, sesquipedalis, hirsutus ; rami 
~ et ramuli numerosi, hirsuti, flexuosi. 
Foura quaterna, lanceolata, lucida, aculeata, 
subtus sulco exarata; petiolis adpressis. 
Frorss in ramulis terminales, plerumque qua- 
terni, cernui; pedunculi longi, glandulosi, brac- 
teis tribus lanceolatis glandulosis. 
Catyx tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, cana- 
liculatis, glandulosis. 
Corotta tubulato-ventricosa, pilosa, costata, 
alba, et pellucida; laciniis semi-orbicularibus, 
sub-erectis, 
SraminA. Filamenta octo capillaria; an- 
there: mutice, incluse. 
Pistittum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Novembris in Junium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta: — 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Stamina diducta, anther unicé lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips within the blossom 3 
flowers of an inflated tubular form, hairy, rib- 
bed, and of a transparent white ; leaves by fours, 
prickly ; stem slender, harshly haired, and much 
branched. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem slender, a foot and a half high, and 
harshly haired; the small and larger branches 
are numerous, hairy, and flexuose. 
Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, shining, 
prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath ; footstalks 
pressed to the stem. 
Fiowers terminate the small branches, mostly 
by fours, and nodding ; footstalks long, glandu- 
lar, and furnished with three lance-shaped glan- 
dular floral leaves. 
Empatement four-leayed; leaflets lance- 
shaped, channelled, and glandular. 
Brossom of an inflated tubular form, hairy, 
ribbed, white, and transparent ; the segments of 
the border are half round, and nearly upright. 
Curves. Eight capillary threads; tips beard- 
less, and within the blossom. 
Porntat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and fur- 
rowed, Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from November till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 
2, The Empalement magnified. 
3. The Chives detached, one tip magnified 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
