ERICA. pregnans. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris inclusis, basi bicornibus: flori- 
bus terminalibus, fasciculatis : corollis urceolatis, 
inflatis: foliis quaternis, linearibus: caulis du- 
miosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuts fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, teres et 
dumosus. 
Foria quaterna, linearia, acuta, basi recur- 
vata, apice adscendentia, ciliata, nitida. 
Fores in ramulis terminales, fasciculati: pe- 
dunculi purpurei, basi bracteis binis parvis op- 
positis instructi. 
Catyx tetraphyllus, foliolis lanceolatis, acu- 
tis, adpressis. 
Corotta magna, inflata, ovata, glabra, niti- 
da, ore arctata, quod pallide carneum est: 
limbi laciniis equalibus, patentibus, carneis, in 
centro saturate rubris. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria. An- 
there basi bicornes, inclusx, * 
Pistintum. Gernien tiareforme, sulcatum, ad 
basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, inclusus. 
Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Aprili in Augustum, 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera unica lente 
aucta. 
~ 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hears, with tips within the blossom, and two- 
horned at their base: flowers terminal in 
bunches: blossoms pitcher-shaped, and swelled: 
leaves by fours, and linear: stem bushy. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a foot or more high, round 
and bushy. 
LEAVES by fours, linear, pointed, with a re- 
curved base and an ascending point, ciliated, 
and shining. 
FLowenrs terminate the branches in bunches: 
footstalks purple, and furnished with two small 
opposite floral leaves at their base. 
Empatement four-leaved : leaflets lance- 
shaped, pointed, and pressed to the blossom. 
Brossom large, swelled, of an ovate form, 
smooth, and shining ; narrowed at the mouth, 
which is of a pale flesh-colour: the segments of 
the border are equal, spreading, flesh-coloured, 
and of a deep red in the centre. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads, Tips two- 
horned at the base, and within the blossom. 
Porntan. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
with honey-cups at their base. Shaft thread- 
shaped, and within the blossom. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. ; 
Flowers from April till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magni- 
fied. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
