ERICA latifolia. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anther.® muticas, exertae. Flores in medio ramorum, 
spicati, umbellati sub-terni ex axillis foliorum, cernui. 
Corolla sub-globosa, glabra, laete-rubra, ore arctata, 
limbo erecto, minuto. Folia terna, latissima, acumi¬ 
nate ovata, supra pilis vestita, subtus albida, margine 
revoluta. Caulis fruticosus, flexuosus, pedalis, ra¬ 
mosus. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers in the 
middle of the branches, in spikes, from the insertion of 
the leaves in umbels of threes, hanging down. Blossom 
nearly globular, smooth, and of a bright red, mouth 
narrowed, border upright and small. Leaves by threes, 
very broad, pointedly egg-shaped, clothed on the upper 
surface with hairs, whitish beneath, and rolled back at 
the edge. Stem shrubby, flexuose, a foot high, and 
branching. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf shown from the underside. 
2. Upper surface of the same, magnified. 
S. The empalement magnified. 
4. Seed-bud, chives and pointal, magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
