ERICA concinna. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, inclufis; doribus in 
medio ramorum fafciculatis, fuberectis; corollis 
fubcylindricis, bad attenuatis, carneis, pubef- 
centibus; foliis fubfenis, glabris, patentibus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis eredtus, fruticofus, tripedalis, pyrami- 
datus, glaber; rami pauci, eredti; ramuli verti- 
cillati, fubfimplices, erecto-patentes. 
Folia fub-fena, glabra, linearia, patentia; 
petiolis brevidimis. 
Flores in medio ramorum fafciculati, termi¬ 
nates, umbellati, umbellas 3-10-dorse; pedunculi 
brevidimi; bradteae fubulatse, calyci adpredas, 
ciliatae. 
Calyx. Periantbium tetraphyllum, foliola 
bad latiora, ciliata, adpreda. 
Corolla fubeylindrica, ore parum ardlata, 
carnea, pubefeens; laciniis patentibus. 
Stamina. Filamenta odo, capillaria. An- 
theras muticae, inclufae. 
Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, dipra con- 
cavum, margine crenulato. Stylus dliformis, 
rubicundus. Stigma fub-capitatum, atro-rubens. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret ab O dob re, in Decembrem. 
REFERENTI A. 
1. Calyx et Corolla. 
•2. Calyx audus. 
3. Stamina et Pidillum, anthera una lente audta. 
4. Pidillum, Stigma audum. 
5. Germen, audum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
He ath with beardlefs tips within the bloffom; 
dowers grow in fmall bundles about the middle 
of the branches, rather upright; blodoms nearly 
cylindrical, tapered to the bate, defh-coloured, 
downy; leaves grow modly by dxes, fmooth 
and fpreading. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, fhrubby, grows three feet high, 
pyramidally, fmooth; branches few, upright; 
fmall branches whorled, nearly dmple, between 
upright and fpreading. 
Leaves grow modly by dxes, fmooth, linear, 
fpreading, with very fhort foot-dalks. 
Flowers grow bundled about the middle of 
the branches, terminal, and in umbels, 3- ; 0 
dowers in each umbel; foot-dalks very fhort; 
floral leaves awl fhaped, preded to the cup, 
fringed. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leadets 
broader at the bate, fringed, preded to the dem. 
Blossom nearly cylindrical, the mouth a little 
narrowed,defh-coloured,downy; fegments fpread- 
ing. 
Chives. Threads eight, hair-like. Tips beard¬ 
lefs, within the blodom. 
Pointal. Seed bud top-fhaped, concave at 
the top, with the margin lcolloped. Shaft thread- 
fliaped, reddifh. Summit nearly headed, of a 
deep red. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from October, till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement and Blodom. 
2. The Empalement, magnided. 
3. The Chives and Pointal; one Tip magnified. 
4. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
5. The feed-bud, magnified. 
