ERICA fastigiata. 
CHARACTER SPECIPICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, foliis quaternis 
linearibus glabris; floribus quaternis subsessilibus 
fastigiatis. 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
leaves in fours linear smooth; flowers in fours 
nearly sessile in level-topped bunches. 
DESCRIPTION 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, flexuosus, cortice 
fusco, ramulis numerosis patentibus. 
Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose, with brown 
bark, and numerous spreading branches. 
Folia quaterna, erecta, linearia, glabra, nitida, 
petiolis longiusculis. 
Leaves in fours, erect, linear, smooth, shining, 
with longish footstalks. 
Flores terminales, quatemi, fastigiati, subses- 
siles. 
Flowers terminal, in fours, nearly sitting, form¬ 
ing level-topped bunches. 
Calyx tetraphyllus, duplex, appressus, folio- 
lis ovatis acutis, marginibus membranaceis, irregu- 
lariter serrulatis, virescentibus. 
Empalement four-leaved, double, pressed to 
the blossom, with leaflets ovate-acute, with skinny, 
greenish, irregularly serrulated margins. 
Corolla albissima, pellucida, ovato-conica, la- 
ciniis subovatis, recurvis. 
Blossom very white, pellucid, egg-cone-shaped, 
with segments nearly egg-shaped, and recurved. 
Stamina, filamenta oeto, capillaria. Anthers 
mutics, incluss, fuses. 
Chives, eight hair-like threads. Tips beard¬ 
less within the blossom, brown. 
Pistillum inclusum. Germen tiarsforme. 
Pointal included in the blossom. Seed-bud 
Stigma tetragonum. 
turban-shaped. Summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Eons SpeL 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a Dec. ad Mai. 
Flowers from December to May. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Pagina inferior folii lente aucta. 
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 
2. Corolla cum Calyce. 
2. The Blossom with the Empalement. 
3. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. The Empalement magnified. 
4. Stamina et Pistillum expansa, anthera solitaria 
lente aucta. 
The Chives and Pointal expanded, with one tip 
magnified. 
5. Pistillum cum stigmate lente aucto. 
5. The Pointal with the summit magnified. 
6. Germen auctum. 
6. The Seed-bud magnified. 
