ERICA villosa. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Enrica, antheris muticis, exertis; floribus vil- 
losis, urceolatis, albis. Calyx villosus, ad mar- 
ginem viridis; foliis ternis, reyolutis, villosis. 
Caulis debilis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cavuis fruticosus, flexuosus, purpurascens. 
Rami et ramuli filiformes, villosi. 
Fora terna, linearia, obtusa, ad margines re- 
voluta; seniora patentia, juniora adscendentia ; 
margine pilis longis hirta. 
Fiores in extremis ramulis terminales, sub- 
terni, penduli. Pedunculi longi, rubri; brac- 
teis tribus minutis adpressis. 
Caryx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis 
lato-ovatis, sulcatis, totis densissime albo-vil- 
losis: margine calycis lete viridi. 
Corot urceolata, villosa, alba; oris laciniis 
obtusis, erectis. 
Sramina. Filamenta octo capillaria ; anthere 
mutice, exerte. 
PistittumM. Germen tiareforme, pubescens, 
ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, stami- 
nibus paulo longior. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a mense Februarii in Junium. 
REFERENTIA. 
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Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 
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. Calyx et Corolla. 
os 
. Stamina et Pistillum, lente aucta. 
. Flos. 
= 
or 
. Calyx lente auctus. 
Germen lente auctum. 
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SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Hearn, with beardless tips, without the blossom. 
Flowers hairy, pitcher-shaped, and white. Cup 
hairy, with green edges. Leaves by threes, rolled 
back at the edges, and hairy. Stem weak. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, flexuose, and of a purplish 
colour, The small and large branches are thread- 
shaped, and hairy. 
Leaves by threes, linear, blunt; and rolled 
back at the edges; the older ones spreading, the 
younger ones ascending: the edges rough with 
long hairs. 
Fiowers grow at the extremity of the smaller 
branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. The 
footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three 
small floral leaves pressed to them. 
Empatemenr. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets 
broadly egg-shaped, furrowed, and covered with 
long white hairs: the edges of the cup are of a 
bright green colour. 
Buiossom pitcher-shaped, hairy, and white: 
the segments of the border are obtuse, and up- 
right. 
Cuives. Eight hair-like threads ; tips beard- 
less, and without the blossom. 
Pornrat. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy, 
and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, 
a little longer than the chives. Summit four- 
cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from February till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement and Blossom. 
3. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 
A, A Flower. 
5. The Empalement magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
