ERICA blanda. 
DESCRIPTIO, 
Antherje exertae, basi bicornes. Flores numerosi, 
terminales, umbellati, horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi 
longi, colorati. Corolla sub-cylindrica, incarnata, laevia 
ter tomentosa 5 laciniis aequalibus, erectis. Folia plerum¬ 
que sena, linearia, obtusa, asperiuscula, basi recurvata, 
apice adscendentia j petiolis longis. Caulis fruticosus, 
spithamaeus, teres. Rami numerosi, recurvato-adscen- 
dentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their 
base. Flowers numerous, in terminal bunches, in a ho¬ 
rizontal direction. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blos¬ 
som nearly cylindrical, flesh-coloured, and slightly downy. 
The segments of the border are equal, and upright. 
Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and roughish, 
bent downwards at the base, with ascending points. 
Footstalks long. Stem shrubby, a span high, round. 
Branches numerous, bending downwards, and ascending. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from April till September. 
REFERENCE, 
1. The empalement. 
2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
