ERICA pinifolia, discolor. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus ver- 
ticillatis; corollis tubulosis, costatis, glandulo- 
sis; foliis senis, confertis, incurvis ; caulibus 
robustis. 
DESCRIPTIO. ° 
Cavuis fruticosus, brevis, robustus, paululum 
flexuosus, cicatricibus foliorum asper ; rami foliis 
dense tecti, numerosi, sub-verticillati, patentes, 
atque expansi; apicibus adscendentibus, 
Fouts plerumque sena confertissima, linearia, 
uncialia, subtus sulcata, seniora recurva, sed post 
medium incurva, adscendentia. 
Fiores verticillati sub apicibus ramorum ho- 
rizontaliter ; pedunculi colorati, hirsuti; bracteis 
tribus hirsutis, 
Catyx tetraphyllus ; foliolis linearibus, subu- 
latis, hirsutis, adpressis. 
Corot tubulosa, costata, pollicaris, pilis 
glandulosis densissime circumsessa, apicem ver- 
sus albis, ad basin rubris;— laciniis reyolutis, 
obsolete crenulatis. 
Sramina, Filamenta octo, capillaria ; anthere 
sub-incluse, mutice. 
Pistirtum. Germen tiareforme, lanatum. 
Stylus filiformis, sub-exsertus, Stigma tetra- 
gonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Maio in Julium, 
REFERENTIA, 
1. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Corolla lente aucta. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherd unica lente 
aucta, 
4. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips within the blossom ; 
flowers grow in whorls; blossoms tubular, ribbed, 
and glandular; leaves by sixes, crowded, and 
turned inwards ; stem stout. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby, short, stout, and a little flexuose, 
rough from the cicatrices of the leaves; the 
branches thickly covered with leaves, numerous, 
rather whorled, spreading, and expanded, with 
ascending points. 
Leaves chiefly in sixes, very crowded, linear, 
an inch long, furrowed beneath, the older ones 
recurved, but beyond the middle incurvedly 
ascending. 
Fiowers whorled near the ends of the branches 
in an horizontal direction ; footstalks coloured, 
and hispid; with three rough-haired floral leaves, 
Empatement four-leayed ; leaflets are linear, 
awl-shaped, harshly haired, and pressed to the 
blossom. 
Brossom tubular, ribbed, an inch long, and 
closely beset with glandular hairs, white towards 
the end and red at the base; the segments of the 
border are rolled back, and slightly notched. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads ; tips just 
within the blossom, and beardless. 
Poinrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped and wool- 
ly. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blos- 
som. Summit four-cornered, 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
Flowers from May till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement magnified. 
‘2. A Blossom magnified. 
3. The Chives and Poinial, one tip magni 
fied. 
4. Seed-bud magnified, 
