ERICA baccans 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
£111 c a, antheris critlatis, inclufis; folia qua- 
terna, rigida, glauca; corollis globofis, umbel- 
latis calycibufque purpureis. 
Heath, with cretled tips, within the bloffom; 
the leaves grow by fours, are harth, and of a 
whitith green; the flowers are globular, in 
bunches, and are, as well as their cups, purple. 
DESCRI PTIO. ' " 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticofus, ereclus, fefquipedalis, ra- 
moliffimus; rami rigidi, ereili, torti. 
Stem fhrubby, upright, a foot and a half high, 
and very branching; the branches are harth, up¬ 
right, and twitted. 
Folia quaterna, glauca, incur vat a, fubtus ful- 
cata, rigida, ferrulata. 
Leaves grow by fours, are of a whitith green, 
and bent inwards, furrowed beneath, harth, 
and flightly fawed at the edge. 
Flores terminales, plerumque quatuor, um- 
bellati, nutantes; pedunculi longi, purpurei, brac- 
teis tribus inftrudli. 
Flowers grow at the ends of the branches, 
moftly by fours, in bunches, and nodding; the 
foot-tlalks are long and purple, having three 
floral leaves. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
ovatis, carinatis, adpreflis. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets 
egg-thaped, keeled, and prefled to the bloflom. 
Corolla globofa purpurea, ima quadrata; 
limbo quadrilobo, laciniis sequalibus, eredlis. 
Blossom globular, purple, and fquared at the 
bafe; the border four-lobed, the fegments of 
which are upright, and equal. 
Stamina. Filamenta o6to capillaria, recep- 
taculo inferta. Antheree critlat®, inclufe. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into 
the receptacle. The tips cretled, and within the 
bloffom. 
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Pistillum. Germen globofum, magnum, 
fulcatum; ftylus fubexfertus, pyramidatus; ftig- 
ma tetragonum. 
Pointal. Seed-veflel globular, large, and 
furrowed; the thaft nearly without the bloflom, 
tapering from the bafe; the fummit four-cor¬ 
nered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon® Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a menfe Aprilis, in Julium. 
Flowers from April, till July. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Calyx, et Corolla, 
I. The Empalement, and Bloffom. 
1 . Calyx lente audtus. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. Stamina, et Pitlillum. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. Stamina a Piltillo didudta, anthera una 
lente audta. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one 
tip magnified. 
5. Pitlillum et Germen lente au6tum. 
5. The Pointal and Seed-veflel magnified. 
