ERICA propendens 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, floribus subgemi- 
natis pendulis campanulatis pubescentibus, foliis li- 
nearibus quaternis itidem pubescendbus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, subpedalis, flexuosus, ramis 
flexuoso-patentibus, ramulis floriferis pendulis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, pubescenda, subtus sul¬ 
cata, petiolis brevibus, adpressis ; seniora reflexa. 
Flores terminales in ramulis lateralibus, pendu¬ 
lis ; plerumque binati ; pedimculi colorati, bracteis 
tribus ad calycem instructi. 
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis acuminatis, 
concavis, pubescentibus, coloratis, adpressis. 
Corolla campanulata, rubro-purpurea, laciniis 
late ovatis, patentibus. 
Stamina octo capillaria; antheras muticas, in- 
clusae. 
Pistillum. Germen breve tiarasforme ; stylus 
filiformis inclusus ; stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Pagina inferior folii, lente aucta. 
2 . Flos. 
3 . Calyx lente auctus. 
4 . Stamina, et Pistillum. 
5 . Eadem expansa. 
6. Stamen lente auctum. 
7 . Pistillum, stigmate lente auctum. 
8. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
flowers chiefly twinned pendulous bell-shaped pu¬ 
bescent, and leaves linear in fours also pubescent. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, near a foot high, flexuose, with 
flexuose, spreading branches, and with the little 
flower-bearing branches pendulous. 
Leaves in fours, linear, pubescent, furrowed 
beneath, with short footstalks, pressed to the 
branches ; the old leaves bent downwards. 
Flowers terminal in small, lateral, pendulous, 
branches; chiefly in pairs; the peduncles coloured, 
and furnished with three floral leaves near the ein- 
palement. 
Empalement of four leaves, with the little 
leaves egg-shaped, acuminated, concave, pubescent, 
coloured, and pressed to the blossom. 
Blossom, bell-shaped, red-purple, with the seg¬ 
ments broad egg-shaped, and spreading. 
Chives eight hair-like threads, the tips beard¬ 
less and within the blossom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud short, turban-shaped; 
shaft thread-shaped within the blossom ; summit 
four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under-side of a Leaf magnified. 
2. A Flower. 
3 . The Empalement magnified. 
4 . The Chives, and Pointal. 
5. The same expanded. 
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6. A Chive magnified. 
7 . The Pointal, with the summit magnified. 
8. The Seed-bud magnified. 
