ERICA primuloides. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quinis, 
confertis: floribus sessilibus, terminalibus, fasti- 
giatis: frutex pygmeus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuts fruticosus, spithameus, erectus, du- 
mosus: ramuli numerosi, adscendentes. 
Fora quina, subulata, supra plana, subtus 
sulcata, glabra, crassiuscula, erecta, conferta. 
Frores sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni et 
quini, terminales. 
Catyx. Perianthium duplex: exterius tri- 
phyllum, foliolis subulatis, marginibus pilosis : 
interius tetraphyllum, foliolis longioribus. 
Corot ventricosa, pellucida, ore arctata, 
quod crnatum est in modum primule: laciniis 
cordatis, expansis, albis, subtus lete rubris. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; an- 
there mutice, incluse. 
Pistittum. Germen_ tiareforme, sulcatum, 
ad basin nectariferum. Stylus sub-inclusus, 
Stigma sub-exertum, tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Maio in Julium. 
REFERENTIA 
- 1. Folium. 
2. Calyx lente auctus 
3. Flores varietatum duarum. 
A, Stamina et Pistillum, anther4 unica lente 
aucta. 
5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto, 
6. Germen lente auctum, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heatu, with beardless tips within the blossom: 
leaves by fives, crowded: flowers sessile, fasti- 
giate, and terminal: a dwarf shrub. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and 
bushy: the smaller branches are numerous, and 
ascending. 
Leaves by fives, awl-shaped, flat on their 
upper surface, and furrowed on the under side, 
smooth, thickish, upright, and crowded. 
FLowenrs sessile, upright, fastigiate, and ter- 
minating the branches by fours and fives, 
Empatement. Cup double: the outer one is 
three-leaved, with awl-shaped leaflets and hairy 
margins: the inner one is four-leayed, with 
longer leaflets. 
Buossom bellied, pellucid, narrowed at the 
mouth, which is ornamented like a cowslip : the 
segments of the border are heart-shaped, spread- 
ing, and white, of a bright red on the under side. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads : tips beard- 
less, within the blossom. 
Porntat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
with honey-cups at their base. Shaft just within 
the blossom. Summit just without, and four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. | 
Flowers from May till J uly. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The Empalement magnified. . 
3. Flowers of two varieties, 
_ 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Pointal and Seed-bud, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
