ERICA coronata. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris ariftatis, inclufis; corollis cylin- 
drico-clavatis, fpeciofiflimis; folds odtonis feu 
fpiraliter fparfis, truncatis, arcuatis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, eredbus, bipedalis, bafi fim- 
pliciflimus, rami pauci, fimplices, longi. 
Folia octona, linearia, obtufa, fupra fcabra, 
lubtus fulcata, attenuata in petiolos longos ca- 
p ill ares. 
Flores plures, fubterminales, limpliciter ver- 
ticillati, conferti, vifcofi; pedunculi longi recur- 
vati, brafteis tribus inftructi. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
lanceolatis, vifcofis, adpreflis. 
Corolla cylindrico-clavata, pollicaria, apice 
recurvata, ima parte profunde carnea, apice viri- 
die, ore ardlata, laciniis redtis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria; recep- 
taculo inferta. Antherae ariftate, inclufae. 
Pistillum. Germen clavatum, fulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis, fubexfertus. Stigma peltatum, 
concavum, viride. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a Februarii, in Aprilem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium unum, cum petiolo. 
2. Calyx, et Corolla. 
3. Calyx, lente audtus. 
4. Stamina, et Piftillum. 
5. Stamina a Piftillo didudta, anthera una 
lente audta. 
6. Stylus, et Stigma lente audta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips, within the blofloms, 
which are cylindrically club-fhaped and very 
Ihewy; the leaves grow by eights or fpirally 
fcattered, appear cut off at the ends and arched. 
description. 
Stem fhrubby, eredt, grows two feet high, 
limple at the bafe, with but few branches, which 
are limple, and long. 
Leaves grow by eights, are linear, blunt, 
rough on their upper, and furrowed on their 
under furface, tapering into long hair-like foot- 
Italks. 
The Flowers are numerous, nearly terminat¬ 
ing the branches, in limple whorls, crowded toge¬ 
ther, and clammy; the foot-ltalks are long, bent 
backward, with three floral leaves. 
I 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets 
lance-fhaped, clammy, and prefled to the bloflom. 
Blossom cylindrically club-fhaped, an inch 
long, bent back at the point, the lower part of a 
ftrong flelh colour, the end green, comprefled at 
the mouth, whofe fegments are flraight. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into 
the receptacle. Tips bearded, and within the 
bloflom. 
Pointal. Seed-veflel club-lhaped, and fur¬ 
rowed. Shaft thread-fhaped, almoft without the 
bloflom. Summit Ihield-lhaped, concave, and 
green. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from February, till April. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf, with its foot-Aalk. 
2. The Empalement, and Bloflom. 
3. The Empalement, magnified. 
4. The Chives, and Pointal. 
5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one 
tip magnified. 
6. The Shaft, and its Summit magnified-. 
