ERICA exfurgens. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, exfertis; foliis quater- 
nis, mucronatis, apicibus reflexis; corollis cla- 
vato-cylindraceis, verticillatis, aurantiis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, pedalis et ultra, eredtus, 
bafi flmpliciflimus; rami verticillati, limplices, 
eredli. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, apice re- 
flexa, mucronata, fupra plana, fubtus fulcata, 
unguicularia, petiolis adpreflis. 
Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, redli; 
verticilli alter alteri exfurgentes; pedunculi longi, 
bradteis tribus inflrudti. 
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Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, vifcofis, ad- 
prellis. 
Corolla clavato-cylindrica, pollicaria, au- 
rantia; ore limbo quadrilobo revoluto, laciniis 
fuperioribus longioribus. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria, recep- 
taculo inferta. Antherae muticae, magnas, ex- 
fertae. 
Pistillum. Germen clavatum, fulcatum. 
Stylus filiformis, ftaminibus longior. Stigma te- 
tragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Floret a menfe Septembris, in Marti um. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx, et Corolla. 
2. Calyx lente audtus. 
3. Stamina et Piflillum. 
4. Stamina a Piftillo didudta; anthera una lente 
audla. 
5. Stylus, et Stigma lente audta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardlefs tips, without the bloflom; 
leaves gi'ow by fours, are fharp pointed, and bent 
back at the point; the bloffoms are cylindrically 
club-fhaped, grow in whorls, and orange co¬ 
loured. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem lhrubby, rather more than a foot high, 
upright, and Ample at the bafe; the branches 
grow in whorls, are Ample and upright. 
The Leaves grow by fours, are linear, fmooth, 
bent downward at the point, which is fharp, 
fmooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under 
furface, half an inch long, with the footA:alks 
preATed to the branches. 
The Flo wers grow in whorls about the middle 
of the branches, Araight out; the whorls rife out 
of each other in fucceAion; the foot-ftalks are 
long, having three Aoral leaves. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets 
lance-fhaped, tapered, keel-ihaped, clammy, and 
prefled to the bloflom. 
Blossom, cylindrically club-fhaped, an inch 
long and orange coloured; the fegments of the 
mouth are four, which are rolled back, the upper 
longer than the lower ones. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Axed into 
the receptacle. Tips beardlefs, very large, and 
without the bloflom. 
Point al. Seed-veflel club-fhaped, and fur¬ 
rowed. Shaft thread-fhaped, and longer than the 
chives. Summit, four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Flope. 
Flowers from September, till March. 
1 REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement, and Bloflom. 
2. The Empalement, magnifled. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one 
tip magnifled. 
5. The Shaft and its Summit magnifled. 
