ERICA Archeria. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, inclufis, ftylo exferto; 
floribus lubterminalibus, verticillatis; corollis tu- 
bulofo-clavatis, villofis, rubro-purpureis, pollica- 
ribus; foliolis fen is, rigidis, ferrato-ciliatis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Calf lis fruticofus, eredtus, fefquipedalis; rami 
eredli, fimplices; ramuli pauci, patento-ere&i. 
Folia fena, linearia, rigida, patentia, margine 
ferrato-ciliata; petiolis breviffimis, adpreffis. 
Flores in fummitate ramorum fubterminales, 
verticillati, patenti; pedunculi brevi, bradleis tri¬ 
bus inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
ovato-lanceolatis, apicibuF parum reflexis, hifpi- 
dis, vifcolis. 
Corolla tubul ofo-clavata, pollicaris, villofa, 
rubro-purpurea, vifcofa; laciniis eredtis. 
Stamina. Filamento odto, capillaria, apice 
incurvata. Antherse muticae, inclufae. 
Pistillum. Germen fubovatum, octo-fulca- 
tum, ad balin glandulofum. Stylus filiformis, 
exfertus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Floret ab Augufto, in Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
]. Calyx, lente audtus. 
2. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 
3. Stamina et Piftillum. 
4. Piftillum, Stigma audlum. 
5. Germen, lente audlum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, within the bloffom, 
lhaft without; flowers nearly terminate the 
branches in whorls; blofloms tubularly club- 
fliaped, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and an 
inch long; leaves grow by fixes, harfh, and fa.wed 
at the edge as if fringed. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem fhrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; 
branches upright, Ample; fmall branches few, 
grow upright-fpreading. 
Leaves grow by fixes, linear, harfh, fpread¬ 
ing, fa wed like a fringe at margin; with very 
fhort foot-ftalks preflfed to the ftem. 
Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of 
the branches in whorls, fpreading; foot-ftalks 
' fhort, with three floral leaves. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets be¬ 
tween egg and lance-fhaped, points a little re¬ 
flexed, hairy and clammy. 
Blossom tubularly club-fhaped, an inch long, 
hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; feg- 
ments upright. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads turned in-; 
wards at the top. Tips beardlefs, within the 
bloflom. 
Point al. Seed-bud nearly egg-fhaped, eight- 
furrowed, glandular at the bafe. Shaft thread- 
fhaped, without the bloflom. Summit four-cor¬ 
nered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from Auguft, till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement, magnified. 
2. A Flower, natural fize. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
5. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
