ERICA ampullacea 
CHARACTER SPECIEICUS. 
Erica, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; foliis 
quaternis, retortis; floribus viscosis, umbellatis, 
ampullaceis, striatis, sub-sesquipollicaribus. 
DESCRIPTION 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus; rami 
fiexuosi, filiformes. 
Folia quaterna, trigona, ciliata, retorta, mu- 
cronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata; petioli bre- 
vissimi, adpressi. 
Flores umbellati, siepe quatuor, viscosi, ter- 
minales; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus spathu- 
latis instructi. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
spathulatis, margine ciliatis, viscosis, adpressis. 
Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata, longi- 
tudinaliter striata, sub-sesquipollicaria, ore arc- 
tata, saturate purpurea; laciniis ovatis, expansis. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; an- 
tlierie indusse, bifidse, basi bicornes. 
Pistillum. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. 
Stylus exsertus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum, 
virescens. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem. 
RE FEREN TIA. 
1. Folium unum lente auctum. 
2. Calyx et Corolla. 
3. Calyx lente auctus. 
4. Stamina et Pistillum. 
5. Stamina a Pisiillo diducta; antbera una 
lente aucta. 
6 . Stylus et Stigma lente aucta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with tips two-horned at their base, 
within the blossom; the leaves grow by' fours, 
and are rolled back; the flowers are clammy, grow 
in bunches, are flask-shaped, striped, and nearly 
an inch and a half long. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, grows about a foot high, and 
branching; the branches are crooked, and thread¬ 
shaped. 
Leaves grow by fours, are three-sided, fringed, 
rolled back, sharp-pointed, smooth on the upper, 
and furrowed on the under surface; with short 
footstalks, pressed to the branches. 
Flowers grow in bunches, mostly of four, 
are clammy, and terminate the branches; the 
fruit-stalks are long, having three spathula¬ 
shaped floral leaves. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are 
spathula-shaped, fringed at the edges, clammy, 
and pressed to the blossom. 
Blossom swelled at the base, and tapering to 
the top, striped longitudinally, nearly an inch 
and a half long, straightened at the mouth, 
which is of a deep purple; the segments egg- 
shaped, and spreading. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads ; tips within 
the blossom, are cleft in two, and two-horned 
at their base. 
Pointal. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and fur¬ 
rowed. Shaft without the blossom, and thread¬ 
shaped. Summit four-cornered, and green. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flow r ers from the month of July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement and Blossom. 
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. 
