ERICA petiveriana aurantia . 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, exfertis; corolla conica, 
aurantia, incurvata, pollicaris, limbo inflato clau- 
fo; calycinis foliolis imbricatis, fubovatis, mucro- 
natis, rigidis; floribus fubternis, terminalibus; 
foliis ternis, linearibus, rigidis, obtufis, patenti- 
bus. 
DESCRI PTIO. 
Caulis eredtus, fefquipedalis, fufcus; rami 
tedli ramulis ternis, confertis, patentibus. 
Folia terna, linearia, rigida, fub-fcabra, fub- 
tus fulcata, obtufa, patentia. 
Flores fub-terni, ramulorum terminales in- 
curvati, penduli; pedunculi breviflimi. 
Calyx. Perianthium duplex, exterium, tetra- 
phyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, rigidis, luteis, ad- 
preflis, imbricatis; interium , tetraphyllum, foliolis 
priori fimilibus fed duplo longioribus. 
Corolla conica, calyce triplo longior, au¬ 
rantia ; laciniis limbi ovatis, credits, inflatis, in¬ 
cur vis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odlo, linearia, plana. 
Anther® muticae, exfertae, lineares, corollse longi- 
tudine, plans, rubro-fufcae. 
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, fulcatum. Sty¬ 
lus, filiformis longitudine antherarum. Stigma 
obfolete-tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon® Spei. 
Floret a Martio in Maium. 
REFERENTI A. 
1. Flos. 
2. Calyx audtus. 
3. Stamina, et Piftillum. 
4. Stamina libera, anthera una didudla lente 
audla. 
5. Piftillum, magnitudine naturali. 
6. Germen, lente audlum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardlefs tips, without thebloffom, 
which is cone-fhaped, orange, incurved and an 
inch long, the border fwelled and fhut; leaflets 
of the empalement tiled, nearly egg-fhaped, 
pointed, harfh; flowers moftly by threes, termi¬ 
nal; leaves by threes, linear, harfh, blunt, and 
fpreading. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, a foot and a half high, brown; 
branches covered by fmaller branches growing by 
threes, clofe together and fpreading. 
Leaves grow by threes, linear, harfh, rather 
rough, furrowed beneath, blunt and fpreading. 
Flowers grow moftly by threes, terminating 
the fmall branches, turned inwards and hanging 
down; foot-ftalks very fhort. 
Empalement. Cup double, the outer , three¬ 
leaved, leaflets broad-egg-fhaped, harfh, yellow, 
prefled to the inner ones and tiled; the inner , 
four-leaved, leaflets like thofe of the outer, but 
twice the length. 
Blossom conical, thrice the length of the cup ; 
orange-coloured; fegments of the border egg- 
fhaped, upright, fwelled out and incurved. 
Chives. Eight linear, flat threads. Tips beard¬ 
lefs, without the bloflom, linear, the length of the 
bloffom, flat and of red-brown. 
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-fhaped, furrowed. 
Shaft thread-fhaped, the length of the tips. Sum¬ 
mit bluntly four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till May. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Flower. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. The Chives, and Pointal. 
4. The Chives free, one tip detached, magni¬ 
fied. 
5. The Pointal, natural fize. 
6. The Seed-bud magnified. 
