ERICA rupestris 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris aristatis inclusis, foliis quaternis 
obtusissimis margine cartilagineis, corollis termi- 
nalibus ternatis campanulatis trilinearib usque, 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Suffrutex pygmasus, humifusus, inter rupes. 
Caulis sub-trientalis, ramosus, ramulis divari- 
catis et decumbentibus. 
Folia quaterna, conferta, patula, linearia, at lati- 
uscula et crassiuscula, obtusissima, lucida, margini- 
bus, prascipue ad lentem, cartilagineis, subtus sulcata. 
Flores terminales, plerumque ternati, nutantes, 
vel cernui, vel subinde erectiores; pedunculi longi- 
tudine corollse, rubri, bracteis tribus alternis 
muniti. 
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis adpressis, sublance- 
olatis, obtusissimis, obtuseque carinatis, marginem 
versus membranaceis. 
Corolla campanulata, alba, laciniis semiro- 
tundis, patentibusque. 
Stamina octo, capillaria; antherse barbatge, 
inclusse. 
Pistillum. Germen coronasforme. Stylus fili- 
formis. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Floret a rnense Julii ad Novembrem, 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Pagina inferior Folii. 
2. Calyx et Corolla. 
3. Calyx lente auctus. 
4. Stamina diducta, anthera unica lente aucta. 
5. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom, 
leaves in fours very obtuse and cartilaginous on 
the margin, blossoms terminal in threes bell-shaped 
and three lines long. 
DESCRIPTION". 
A dwarfish little shrub, spread about upon the 
ground amongst rocks. 
Stem three inches high, branched, with the lit¬ 
tle branches divaricating and. decumbent. 
Leaves in fours, crowded, spreading a little, 
linear, but broadish and rather thick, very obtuse, 
shining, and on the margin, especially in the mag¬ 
nifier, cartilaginous, and furrowed beneath. 
Flowers terminal, and chiefly in threes, nodding, 
or cernuous, or sometimes more erect; peduncles 
the length of the blossom, red, and furnished with 
three alternate floral leaves. 
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Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets close 
pressed to the blossom, somewhat spear-shaped, very 
blunt, and bluntly keeled, and membranaceous to¬ 
wards the margin. 
Blossom bell-shaped, white, with the segments 
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half round and spreading. 
Chives eight, capillary; tips bearded, within 
the blossom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud crown-shaped. Shaft thread¬ 
shaped. Summit ur-angad. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of July to November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a Leaf. 
2. The Empalement and Blossom. 
3. The Empalement magnified. 
4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 
5. The Seed-bud and Pointal with the summit 
magnified. 
6. The Seed-bud magnified. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
