ERICA grandiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris muticis, cohaerentibus, valde co- 
rollam excedentibus; floribus verticillatis, hori- 
zontalibus; corollis clavatis, aurantiis, fefquipol- 
licaribus, glabris; foliis fub-quaternis, patenti- 
bus. 
Heath, with beardlefs tips, fticking together, 
and protruding confiderably beyond the bloffom; 
flowers grow in whorls horizontally; blofloms 
club-fhaped, orange coloured, an inch and half 
long, and fmooth; leaves grow moftly by fours, 
fpreading. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
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DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticofus, eredtus, tripedalis et ultra, 
ftridtiflimus; rami fimpliciflimi, eredti, verticil- 
lati. 
Stem fhrubby, upright, grows three feet high 
or more, and very Itiff; branches very Ample, 
upright, and grow in whorls. 
Folia quaterna, leviter fulcata, rigida, refta, 
fub-pollicaria, petiolis laxis. 
Leaves grow by fours, are flightly furrowed, 
harfh, ftraight, near an inch long, with loofe 
foot-flalks. 
Flores ex axillis foliorum fub-apice ramo- 
rum verticillati; pedunculi brevi, bra&eis tribus, 
fubulatis, inftructi. 
Flowers grow from the foot-flalks of the 
leaves, clofe to the ftem, near the fummit of the 
branches, in whorls; foot-flalks fhort, having 
three awl-fhaped floral leaves on them. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
fubulatis, adpreflis, glabris. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl- 
fhaped, prefled to the bloffom, and fmooth. 
Corolla clavata, fefquipollicaris, parum cur- 
vata, glabra, aurantia; laciniis aequalibus, fub- 
ereflis. 
Blossom club-fhaped, an inch and a half 
long, a little curved, fmooth, and orange colour; 
the fegments equal, nearly upright. 
Stamina. Filamenta o6to capillaria, apice 
incurvata. Antheris muticis, bifidis, lateribus 
cohaerentibus, longe exfertis. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved in¬ 
wards at the end. Tips beardlefs, two-cleft, ad¬ 
hering together by the Aides, a great way out of 
the bloffom. 
Pistillum. Germen clavatum, fulcatum, ad 
bafin glandulofum. Stylus filiformis, ftamini- 
bus paulo longior. Stigma apice concavum. 
Pointal. Seed-bud club-fhaped, furrowed, 
and glandular at the bafe. Shaft thread-fhaped, 
a little longer than the chives. Summit concave 
at the top. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a menfi Maii, in Septembrem. 
Flowers from May, till September. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
]. Calyx, et Corolla. 
1. The Empalement, and Bloffom. 
2. Calyx. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. Stamina, et Piftillum, audtum. 
3. The Chives, and Pointal, magnified. 
4. Piliillum, et Germen, Stigma diduftum et 
lente audtum. 
4. The Pointal, and Seed-bud, the Summit 
feparate, magnified. 
5. Germen, au6tum. 
5. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
