ERICA hifpida 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, fubexfertis; ftylo ex- 
ferto; floribus axillaribus, racemofis,terminalibus; 
corollis fubglobofis, parvulis, glabris, incarnatis; 
foliis quaternis, obtufis, hifpidis, patentibus. 
PESCRIPTIQ. 
Caulis eredtus, pedalis; rami et rampli fili- 
formes, eredti, rigidi, numerofi, yerticillati, hif- 
pidi. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtufa, patentia, 
fubtus fulcata, hifpida; petiolis breviffimis, ad- 
preffis. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, without the bloffom; 
ihaft without; flowers grow from the infertion of 
the leaves in terminal bunches, blofToms nearly 
globular, fmall, fmooth and flefh-coloured; leaves 
grow by fours, blunt, hairy and fpreading. 
description. 
Stem upright, a foot high; large and fmall 
branches are thread-thaped, upright, harth, nu-, 
merous, grow in whorls and hairy. 
Leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, fpread¬ 
ing, furrowed beneath, hairy; foot-ftalks very 
fhort, preffed to the ftem. 
Flores in ramulis terminales, racemofl, fub- 
nutantes, incarnati; racemi pollicares ufque digi- 
fales; pedunculi capillares, villoft lopgitudine 
corollas, bradteis diftaptibus. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis 
pvatis, obtufis, villofls, adpreffis, breviffimis. 
Corolla fubglobofa; laciniis limbi eredlis, 
parvulis, obtulis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto capillaria. An¬ 
ther® mutic®, fubexferta, brunne®. 
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Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, fulcatum, 
pilofum ad bafin glandulofum. Stylus flliformis, 
exfertus, ftaminibus longior. Stigma tetragonupi. 
Flowers grow at the end of the branches in 
bunches a little drooping and flefh-coloured; 
bunches from an inch to two inches in length ; 
foot-ftalks hair-like, hairy, the length of the blofr 
fpm; floral leaves at a diftance from the cup. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg- 
fhaped, blunt, hairy, prefled to the bloffom and 
very fhort. 
Blossom nearly globular; fegments of the 
border upright, very fmall, blunt. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beard- 
lefs, juft without the bloffom and brown. 
Pointal. Seed-bud tpp-fhaped, furrowed, 
hairy and glandular at the bafe. Shaft thread- 
ffiaped, without the bloffom, longer than the 
chives. Summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon® Spei. 
Floret ab Augufto, ip Novembrepu 
referentia. 
1. Folium, lente audtum. 
2. Flos, magnitudine natural!. 
3 . Calyx, lente audtus. 
4 . Corolla. 
5. Stamina a Piftillo didudta; anthera upa 
lente audla. 
6. Piftillum, Stigma audtum. 
7 . Germen, lente audtum. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
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Flowers from Auguft till Novepiber. 
REFERENCE. 
1 . A Leaf, magnified. 
2 . A Flower, natural ftze. 
3 . The Empalement, magnified. 
4. The Bloffom. 
5 . The Chives detached from the Pointal; one 
tip magnified. 
6 . The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
7 . The Seed-bud, magnified. 
