ERICA propendens. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae* inclusae. Flores terminales in ra¬ 
mulis lateralibus, pendulis, plerumque binati. Pedun¬ 
culi colorati. Corolla campanulata, rubro-purpurea, 
tomentosa 5 laciniis lato-ovatis, patentibus. Folia qua¬ 
terna, linearia, pubescentia 5 seniora reflexa. Caulis 
fruticosus, sub-pedalis, flexuosus. Rami patentes, ra¬ 
mulis floriferis pendulis. 
DESCRIPTION-. 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers ter¬ 
minal, in small lateral pendulous branches, chiefly in 
pairs. Footstalks coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, of a red 
purple colour, and downy. The segments of the border 
are broadly egg- shaped, and spreading. Leaves by fours, 
linear, and d6wny$ the older ones reflexed. Stem 
shrubby, near a foot high, and flexuose. Branches 
spreading, with the little flower-bearing branches pen¬ 
dulous. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
