ERICA ampullacea. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje basi bicornes* inclusas. Flores umbellati* 
saepe quatuor*. viscosi* terminales* Pedunculi longi. 
Corolla basi inflata* apice attenuata* longitudinaliter 
striata* sub-sesquipollicaris* ore arctata* saturate pur¬ 
purea. Folia quaterna* trigona* ciliata* retorta, mucro¬ 
nata, Caulis fruticosus* pedalis* ramosus^ 
description. 
Tips two-horned at the base*, within the blossom. 
Flowers grow in bunches mostly of four* are clammy* 
and terminate the branches. Footstalks long. Blossom 
swelled at the base* and tapering to the end, striped 
longitudinally* nearly an inch and a half long* straitened 
at the mouth* which is of a deep purple. Leaves by 
fours* three-sided* fringed* rolled back* and sharps 
pointed. Stem shrubby* a foot high* and branching. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till October 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
f. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
