ERICA Sebana lutea. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, exfertis, longiffimis ; 
corolla conica, lutea; laciniis obtufis, eredlis; 
floribus tern is, terminalibus, dependentibus; 
calyx duplex, imbricatus ; foliis ternis, confer- 
tiffimis, reflexis, arcuatis ; caulis fimplex, elon- 
gatus. 
s DESCRIPTIO. 
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Caulis eredtus, bipedalis, laxus ; rami pauci, 
ramulis breviffimis tedli. 
Folia terna, linearia, arcuata; conferta, fub- 
trigona, reflexa, apice acuta, breviffime petiolata. 
Flores term in apice ramulorum penduli; 
pedunculis breviffimis. 
Calyx. Perianthium duplex, exterius tri- 
phyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, membranaceis, ad- 
preffis, imbricatis ; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis 
majoribus. 
Corolla conica, calyce duplo longior, lutea; 
laciniis limbi obtulis, eredtis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto, linearia, plana. 
Antherae muticas, exfertae, lineares, longiffimae, 
attenuata in filamenta. 
Pistillum. Germen ovale, apice truncatum, 
fulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exfertus, ftaminibus 
paulo longior. Stigma obfoletum, virefcens. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a menfe Augusti, in Januarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Stamina, et Piftillum. 
4. Stamina a piftillo didudta. 
5. Anthera una, lente audta. 
6. Piftillum, magnitudine naturali, Stigma 
dilatatum. 
7. Germen, audlum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardlefs tips, without the blof- 
fom and very long ; bloffom conical, and yellow; 
fegments of the border upright; flowers grow by 
threes, terminating the branches, hanging down; 
empalement double, tiled; leaves grow by threes, 
very crowded, are bent back and crooked; stem 
Ample, lengthened out. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, grows two feet high, and weak; 
larger branches few, covered with numerous 
ffiorter ones. 
Leaves grow by threes, linear, curved, 
crowded, nearly three-fided, reflexed, ffiarp- 
pointed, foot-ftalks very fhort. 
Flowers grow by threes hanging down at 
the end of the fmaller branches; foot-ftalks very 
ffiort. 
Empalement. Cup double, the outer three¬ 
leaved, leaflets broad egg-ffiaped, flcinny, prefled 
to the inner, and tiled; the inner four-leaved, 
with larger leaflets. 
Blossom conical, twice the length of the 
cup, yellow ; the fegments of the border blunt 
and upright. 
Chives. Eight linear threads, flat. Tips 
beardlefs, without the bloffom, linear, very long, 
tapered into the threads. 
Pointal. .Seed-bud oval, appearing cut off 
at the end, furrowed. Shaft thread-ffiaped, 
without the bloffom, a little longer than the 
chives. Summit obfolete, and greeniffi. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from Auguft, till January. 
REFERENCE, 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Bloffom. 
3. The Chives, and Pointal. 
4. The Chives detached from the pointal. 
5. A Tip, magnified. 
6. The Pointal of the natural fize, the Summit 
larger. . 
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7. 'The Seed-bud. magnified. 
