ERICA vestita, fulgida* 
DESCRIPTIO» 
AntheRje muticae, sub-exertae^ Flores supra medium 
ramorum, conferti, numerosi 5 pedunculis brevibus. Co- 
rolla Uncialis et ultra, clavata, laete et saturate rubra. 
Folia plerumque sena, linearia, deorsum in petiolos ca¬ 
pillares attenuata, et inde tremula. Caulis fruticosus, tri¬ 
pedalis, ramosus; ramis plerumque erectis, sub-simpli- 
cibus. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flower^ 
above the middle of the branches, crowded and numerous. 
The footstalks are short. Blossoms above an inch long, 
club-shaped, and of a deep bright red colour. Leaves 
mostly by sixes, linear, attenuated downwards into ca¬ 
pillary footstalks, and thence tremulous. Stem shrubby, 
three feet high, branching. The branches are mostly 
upright, and simple. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from June till September. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified 
