ERICA Nivenia. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje basi bicornutae, exertae. Flores terminales, 
umbellati, pedunculis longissimis. Corolla purpurea, 
sub-turbinata, costata, fauce parum arctata 5 laciniis 
revolutis. Folia terna, lato-linearia, obtusa, margine 
pilis longissimis obsita, subtus sulcata, patentia. Suf- 
frutex pygmaeus, ramosus. Rami et ramuli divaricati, 
patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom. 
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, with very 
long footstalks. Blossom purple, nearly top-shaped, 
ribbed, a little contracted at the mouth ; the segments 
rolled back. Leaves by threes, broadly linear, blunt, 
and beset with long hairs at the edges, furrowed be¬ 
neath, and spreading. It is a dwarf shrub, and very 
branching. The large and small branches are straggling 
and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from February till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf shown from the underside magnified. 
2. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. 
