ERICA Linnaeoides. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis, corollis sub-cy- 
lindricis, grossis, villosis; floribus sub-sessilibus, 
ramulos terminantibus j foliis quaternis, linearibus, 
pilosis, confertis. 
EXeATh, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
Blossoms nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy. 
Flowers almost without footstalks, terminating the 
small branches. Leaves grow by fours, are linear, 
hairy, and crowded together. 
DESCRIPTION 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, et patens. Ramuli 
nuraerosi, pilosi. 
Stem shrubby, upright, and spreading. The 
smaller branches are numerous and hairy. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, pilosa, patentia, et sub- 
tus sulcata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis. 
Leaves by fours, linear, hairy, spreading, and 
furrowed beneath, with very short footstalks pressed 
to the branches. 
Flores in ramulis terminales, sub-quaterni, hori- 
zontaliter 5 pedunculis fere nullis 5 bracteis adpressis. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly 
by fours in a horizontal direction. Scarcely any 
footstalks. Floral leaves pressed to the cup. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lan- 
ceolatis, pilosis, adpressis. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved ; leaflets lance¬ 
shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom. 
Corolla sub-cylindracea, grossa, et pilosa, ad 
basin purpurea, et superne alba j laciniis ovatis, pa* 
tentibus. 
Blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy, 
purple at the base, and white at the upper part; the 
segments are ovate, and spreading. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria $ antheras 
muticse, inclusas. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads 5 tips beard¬ 
less, and within the blossom. 
Pistillum. Germen tiarseforme, sulcatum, pi- 
losum. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma te- 
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, 
and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the 
tragonum. 
blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium. 
Flowers from the month of January till May, 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE.- 
1 . Folium lente auctum. 
1 . A Leaf magnified. 
2 . Flos, magnitudine natural!. 
2 . A Flower, natural size. 
3. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. The Empalement magnified. 
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente 
aucta. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6 . Germen lente auctum. 
1 6 . The Seed-bud magnified. 
