ERICA pimfolia, discolor . 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticas, inclusa;. Flores horizontaliter ver~ 
tlcillati, sub apices ramorum. Pedunculi colorati, hir¬ 
suti. Corolla tubulosa, costata, pollicaris, pilis glandu¬ 
losis densissime circumsessa, apicem versus albis, ad 
basin rubris: laciniis revolutis, obsolete crenulatis. Folia 
plerumque sena, confertissima, linearia. Caulis fruti¬ 
cosus, brevis, robustus. Rami foliis dense tecti. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers whorled, 
near the ends of the branches, in a horizontal direction. 
Footstalks coloured and hispid. Blossom tubular, ribbed, 
an inch long, and closely beset with glandular hairs, 
white towards the end, and red at the base. Segments 
of the border are rolled back, and slightly notched. 
Leaves mostly by sixes, very crowded, and linear. Stem 
shrubby, short, and stout. The branches thickly covered 
with leaves. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud magnified 
