ERICA Aitonia. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Aetherje basi bicornes, inclusse. Flores terminales, 
timbellati, terni. Pedunculi longi, purpurei, bracteis 
tribus instructi. Corolla sesquipollicaris, sulcata, linearia, 
summo inflata, ore arctata; laciniis cordatis, maximis, 
expansis, extus carneis, intus albidis. Folia terna, 
erecto-patentia, serrata, acuminata, crassa, subtus sul¬ 
cata. Caulis sesquipedalis. Rami et ramuli filiformes, 
flexibiles. Rami simplices, longi. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. 
Flowers grow at the summit of the branches, three in a 
bunch. The footstalks are long, purple, and furnished 
with three floral leaves. Blossom an inch and a half 
long, furrowed and linear, swelled at the end and nar¬ 
rowed at the mouth j the segments of the border are 
Very large, and expanded, flesh-coloured on the out¬ 
side, and white within. Leaves by threes, between 
erect and spreading, sawed, sharp-pointed, thick, and 
furrowed beneath. Stem a foot and a half high. The 
large and small branches are thread-shaped and supple. 
The branches are simple and long. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The ernpalement magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud atid pointal, summit magnified. 
