ERICA plumofa. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
ii/RiCA antheris ariftatis, ftylo inclufo; corollis 
urceolatis, purpureis, glabris; calyce colorato, 
villofo; floribus axillaribus, pendulis, verticil- 
latis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, obtufis, vil- 
lofis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticofus, flexuofus; rami et ramuli 
glabri, filiformes, fuberedti. 
Folia quaterna, obtufa, villofa, paten tia, line- 
aria, fubtus fulcata; petiolis adpreflis. 
Flores axillares, verticillati, fubfolitarii, cer- 
nui; pedunculi longitudine florum, colorati, 
bradteis tribus, hirfutis, inftrudti. 
Calyx. Perianthium, tetraphyllum, foliolis 
pilofis, coloratis, apicibus viridibus. 
Corolla urceolata, glabra, purpurea; laciniis 
eredtis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odlo, capillaria. An- 
therae ariflate, inclufae. 
Pistillum. Germen fubglobofum, ad balin 
glandulofum. Stylus filiformis, inclufus. Stigma 
capitatum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a Martio in Julium. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Folium, lente audtum. 
2. Flos. 
3 . Calyx, lente audtus. 
4 . Corolla. 
5. Stamina et Piflillum. 
6. Stamina a Piftillo didudta. 
7. Stamen unum, lente audtum. 
8. Piftillum, Stigma audtum. 
9. Germen, lente audtum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with bearded tips; fhaft within the 
blotfoms, which are pitcher-thaped, purple, and 
fmooth; cup coloured, and hairy; flowers grow 
from the infertion of the leaves, hanging down, 
in whorles; leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, 
and hairy. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem thrubby, taking different diredtions; the 
fmall and large branches are fmooth, thread- 
fhaped, and rather upright. 
Leaves grow by fours, blunt, hairy, fpreading, 
linear, furrowed beneath; foot-ftalks prefled to 
the ftem. 
Flowers grow from the infertion of the leaves, 
whorled, moftly folitary, nodding; foot-ftalks the 
length of the flowers, coloured, having three hairy 
floral leaves on them. 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets hairy, 
coloured, and green ends. 
Blossom pitcher-thaped, fmooth, purple, feg- 
ments upright. 
Chives. Eight threads, hair-like. Tips bearded, 
within the bloflom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, glandular 
at the bafe. Shaft thread-thaped, within the blof- 
fom. Summit headed. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf, magnified. 
2. A Flower. 
3. The Empalement, magnified. 
4. The Bloflom. 
5. The Chives and Pointal. 
6 . The Chives detached from the Pointal. 
7. A Chive, magnified. 
8. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 
9. The Seed-bud, magnified. 
