ERICA tenuiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, inclusis ; corollis qua- 
ternis, tenuissimis, luteis. Folia terna et qua- 
terna, linearia. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauuis fruticosus, pedalis, debilis. Rami et 
ramuli filiformes, virgati. 
Fox1a terna et quaterna, linearia; petiolis 
longis adpressis. 
Frores in ultimis ramulis quaterni, patentes ; 
pedunculis brevissimis. 
Caryx. Perianthium duplex; exterius tri- 
phyllum, foliolis lanceolatis ; interius tetraphyl- 
lum, foliolis longioribus. 
Coroiia tubeformis, tenuissima, lutea; oris 
laciniis acuminatis, patentibus. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo; antheris muticis, 
inclusis. 
Pistizium. Germen oblongum. Stylus fili- 
formis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Aprili ad Junium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1, Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una diduct4 
lente aucta. 
4, Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hears, with beardless tips, within the blossoms; 
which grow by fours, are very slender, and 
yellow. Leaves by threes and fours, and linear. 
DESCRIPTION, 
Stem shrubby, a foot high, weak. The 
large and small branches are thread-shaped, and 
twiggy. 
Leaves by threes and fours, linear, with long 
foot-stalks pressed to the branches. 
Fiowers grow by fours at the ends of the 
small branches, and spreading ; with very short 
foot-stalks. 
Empatement. Cup double; the outer three- 
leaved, and leaflets lance-shaped ; the inner one 
four-leaved, and longer than the outer. 
Buossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and 
yellow; segments of the border sharp-pointed 
and spreading. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beard- 
less, and within the blossom. 
Pointat. Seed-bud of an oblong form. Shaft 
thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of April till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1, The Empalement magnified. 
2. A Blossom. 
3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip detached 
and magnified. 
A. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
