ERICA Patterfonia. 
CHARACTER SPECJFICUS. 
Eri ca, antheris aridatis, inclufis; foliis quater- 
nis, floribus axillaribus, e foliis emergentibus, 
cylindricis, luteis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, bipedalis, erecftus, ball ra- 
mofus, dein fimpliciffimus, pyramidatus, ramulis 
breviffimis veditus. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, incurvata, acuta, 
glabra, fubtus fulcata, petiolis breviffimis, ad- 
preffis. 
Flores plures, axillares, in medio cauli e fo¬ 
liis redti emergentes, pedunculis fere nullis. 
Calyx. Perianthium duplex, exterius triphyl- 
lum, foliolis ovatis, acuminatis, interim tetraphyl- 
lum, foliolis fubulatis, apice recurvatis. 
Corolla cylindrica, fubpollicaria, glabra, lu- 
tea, ore ardtato, quadrifido limbo reflexo. 
Stamina. Filamenta o6to capillaria, corollas 
fubaequalia, receptaculo inferta. Antheris arif- 
tatis. 
Pistillum. Germen campanulatum. Stylus 
ffiiformis, tortuofus, exfertus. Stigma tetrago- 
num. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Floret a Martio ad Auguftum. 
REFERENTI A. 
1. Calyx et Corolla. 
2. Calyx lente audtus. 
3. Stamina et Piftilium. 
4. Stamina a Piftillo didudta anthera una lente 
audla. 
5. Stylus et Stigma lente au61a. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips, within the bloffom; 
leaves growing by fours, the flowers grow clofe 
to the flem, peeping out from amongft the leaves, 
are cylindrical, and yellow. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem fhrubby, two feet high, upright, branch¬ 
ing out at the bafe, then forming a fimple, pyra¬ 
midal fpike, covered by very fhort branches. 
Leaves grow by fours, linear, curved, ffiarp- 
pointed, and fmooth, furrowed underneath, hav¬ 
ing fhort leaf-dems preffed to the branches. 
Flowers are numerous, growing clofe to, and 
about the middle of the dem, peeping draight out 
from amongd the leaves, with fcarce any foot- 
dalks. 
Empalement. Cup, double the outer three¬ 
leaved, which are oval, and pointed, the inner 
four-leaved, being awl-fhaped, and bent back at 
the point. 
Blossom cylindrical, near an inch 1 ong, fmooth, 
yellow, and narrow at the mouth, having a four- 
lobed, redexed border. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, nearly the 
length of the bloffom, fixed into the receptacle. 
Tips bearded. 
Pointal. Seed-veffel bell-fhaped. Shaft 
thread-fhaped, twided, and without the bloffom. 
Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till Augud. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement and Bloffom, 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one 
tip magnified. 
5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 
