ERICA Uhria, pilosa. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje aristatae, inclusae 5 stylo exerto, apice cur¬ 
vato. Flores terminales, sub-bini, numerosi. Corolla 
tubuloso-clavata, curvata, pilosa, rubro-purpurea, apice 
virescens, viscosa 5 laciniis limbi erectis. Folia terna, 
linearia, pilosa, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, bi¬ 
pedalis. Rami pauci, erecti. Ramuli frequentissimi, 
erecto-patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Shaft, without 
the blossom, curved at the point. Flowers terminate the 
branches, mostly by twos, and numerous. Blossom tubu¬ 
larly club-shaped, curved, hairy, of a red purple, green at 
the end, and clammy. Segments of the border upright. 
Leaves by threes, linear, hairy, and furrowed beneath. 
Stem shrubby, two feet high. The larger branches are 
few and erect; the smaller branches numerous, and be¬ 
tween erect and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope; 
In bloom from August till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
3. The chives and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified'. 
3 . Seed-bud magnified. 
