ERICA purpurea. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
li/iucA, antheris muticis, exfertis; corollis verti- 
cillatis, tubulofis, a ball incurvata, fenfim ampli- 
atis; foliis lubfenis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, eredtus, bipedalis,pubefcens, 
ball fimpliciffimus, dein verticillatim ramofus, ra- 
mis fimplicibus, adfcendentibus. 
Folia fubfena, linearia, recurvato patentia, 
fupra plana, fubtus revoluta, acuta, rigida, bre- 
viffimis adpreffis petiolis. 
Flores verticillati, fubterminales, dilute pur- 
purei, pedunculis breviffimis inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
ere&is, ovato-oblongis, acuminatis; bradteis binis 
adpreffis. 
Corolla tubulofa, ball incurvata, feniim ver- 
ffis apicem dilatata; ore quadrilobo aequali pa- 
tente. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria, recepta- 
culo inferta. Antheras muticae, exfertas, bipar¬ 
tite. 
Pi s t i llum. Germen turbinatum. Stylus fili- 
formis, lilamentis longior. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bone Spei. 
Floret a menli Julii ad Decembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx et Corolla. 
2. Calyx et Bradtea lente audta. 
3. Stamina et Piltillum. 
4. Stamina a Piftillo didudta, anthera una 
lente audta. 
5. Stylus et Stigma lente audta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardlefs tips, without the blof- 
foms; which grow in whorls, are tubular, gra¬ 
dually widening from an incurved bafe; leaves 
growing mollly by fixes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem fhrubby, upright, grows two feet high, 
downy, quite intire at the bafe, then throws out a 
number of whorled, fimple, afcending branches. 
Leaves growing generally in fixes, linear, 
bent backward and fpreading, plain on their 
upper, and rolled back on their under, furface, 
lharp-pointed, inflexible, with Ihort leaf-ltalks 
prefled clofely to the Item. 
Flowers grow in whorls, nearly at the top of 
the branches, of a line light purple, and furnilhed 
with very Ihort foot-fialks. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, which are 
of an oblong-oval ffiape, upright, and pointed; 
with two floral-leaves clofe to it. 
Blossom tubular, with an incurved bafe, gra¬ 
dually widening towards the mouth, which is cut 
into four equal, fpreading lobes. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, fixed in the 
receptacle. Tips beardlefs, without the bloffom, 
and deeply divided. 
Pointal. Seed-veflel turban-ffiaped. Shaft 
thread-fhaped, longer than the threads. Summit 
four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement with the Bloffom. 
2. The Empalement and Floral-leaves magnified. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. 
