ERICA penicillata. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, exfertis, penicillatis; 
corolla conica, purpurea, l'aciniis luteis, rninutis, 
eredtis; floribus fpicatis, folitariis, pendulis; fo- 
liolis calycinis dorfo canaliculatis, ball, auricu- 
latis, coloratis; bradteis rninutis, remotis; foliis 
ternis, fafciculatis, linearibus, glabris. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis eredtus, fruticofus; rami fubfimplices, 
longi; ramuli breviffimi conferti. 
Folia terna, linearia, glabra, acuta, patentia, 
fafciculata; petiolis breviffimis, adpreffis. 
Flores folitarii, penduli, medio ramorum fpi- 
cati; pedunculi colorati, longi, bradteis tribus, 
rninutis, remotis, inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis, 
dorfo canaliculatis, auriculatis, coloratis, acutis, 
adpreffis. 
Corolla conica, purpurea; laciniis, rninutis, 
eredtis, luteo-virentibus. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto, plana. Antherse 
muticae, penicillatag, exfertae. 
Pistillum. Germen conicum, ftriatum. 
Stylus filiformis, exfertus, ftaminibus longior. 
Stigma fubpeltatum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a Maio, in Auguftum. 
referentia. 
1. Flos. 
2 . Calyx, audtus. 
3. Stamina et Piftillum. 
4. Stamina a Piftillo didudta anthera una lente 
audta. 
5. Piftillum, Stigma audtum. 
6 . Germen, audtum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, without the bloffom 
and formed like a pencil; bloffom conical, purple, 
fegments yellow, fmall, and upright; flowers grow 
in fpikes, folitary, hanging down; the leaflets of 
the cup are channelled at the back, eared at the 
bafe and coloured; floral leaves very fmall, dif- 
tant; leaves grow by threes, bundled, linear, and 
fmooth. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, fhrubby; branches nearly Am¬ 
ple, long; fmall branches clofe together. 
Leaves grow by threes, linear, fmooth, pointed, 
fpreading, and bundled; with very fliort foot- 
flalks preffed to the ftem. 
Flowers grow folitary, hanging down making 
a fpike from the middle of the branches; foot- 
ftalks coloured, long, having the fmall floral 
leaves on their lower part. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets 
channelled at the back, eared, coloured, pointed 
and preffed to the bloffom. 
Blossom conical and purple; fegments fmall, 
upright, greenifh-yellow. 
Chives. Eight chives, flat. Tips beardlefs, 
pencil-like and without the bloffom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud conical, ftreaked. Shaft 
thread-fhaped, without the bloffom, longer than 
the chives. Summit nearly fhield-fhaped. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from May, till Auguft. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Flower. 
2 . The Cup, magnified. 
3. The Chives and Pointal. 
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
5. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
6. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
