ERICA tenuiflora, alba. 
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus qua- 
ternis, tenuissimis, albis: foliis quaternis, li- 
nearibus, glabris: caulis gracilis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuuis fruticosus, debilis, pedalis et ultra: 
rami et ramuli filiformes, virgati. 
FouiaA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra, 
erecto-patentia. 
Frores ad apices ramulorum quaterni: pedun- 
culis brevibus, bracteis tribus subulatis instructis. 
Catryx tetraphyllus : foliolis luteolo-virentibus, 
lanceolatis, adpressis, 
Coro..a tubeformis, tenuissima: oris laciniis 
acuminatis, patentibus, albicantibus: tubo pel- 
lucido. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo; antheris muticis, 
inclusis. 
Pistiztum. Germen tiareforme, sulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii in Decembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1, Calyx lente auctus. 
~ 9. Corolla lente aucta, 
3. Stamina et Pistillum, anther& unica lente 
aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto, 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips within the blossom : 
flowers grow by fours, slender, and white: leayes 
by fours, linear, and smooth: stem slender, 
DESCRIPTION. 
Srem shrubby, weak, a foot or more high: 
the small and large branches are thread-shaped, 
and twiggy. 
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, 
and spreading. 
Fiowrrs grow by fours at the ends of the 
small branches: footstalks short, and furnished 
with three awl-shaped floral leaves, 
Empatement four-leaved: leaflets of a yel- 
lowish green, lance-shaped, and pressed to the 
blossom. 
Biossom trumpet-shaped, and very slender ; 
the segments of the border are sharp-pointed, 
spreading, and very white; the tube is of a 
transparent white. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads 3 tips beard- 
less, and within the blossom. 
Poinrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and fur- 
rowed. Shaft thread-shaped, 
Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from July till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement magnified. 
2. A Blossom magnified. 
3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip mag- 
nified. P 
4, Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
