ERICA fexfaria. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS, 
Erica, antheris bafi bicornibus, longe exfertis 
atro-purpureis; ftylo exferto; corollis ovatis ca- 
lyce imbricato brevioribus; floribus ternis, feflili- 
bus, terminalibus, albis; foliis ternis, trigonis, 
glabris, fexfariam imbricatis. 
DESCRIPTIG. 
Caulis eredtus, fubpedalis,glaber; rami pauci, 
eredti; ramuli fimplices, fubverticillati, rigicli. 
Folia terna, trigona, obtufa, glabra, param 
incurvata, patentiufcula, fexfariam pofita, craf- 
fiufcula. 
Flores in ramulorum apice terni, feflili, can- 
didi. 
Calyx. Perianthium duplex, exterium , tri- 
phyllum, foliolis fubrotundis, undulatis, coloratis, 
fubpatentibus; interium, tetraphyllum, foliolis 
carinatis, adpreffis, concavis, fubrotundis, longi- 
tudine corolls. 
Corolla ovata, glabra, membranacea, alba, 
calyce paulo breviora; limbi laciniis erectis. 
Stamina. Filamenta odto plana. Anthers 
bafi bicornuts, exferts, atropurpurese. 
Pistillum. Germen fub-globofum, fulcatum, 
glabrum. Stylus filiformis, ftaminibus longior. 
Stigma obfolete-tetragonum, atropurpureum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bons Spei. 
Floret a Martio in Julium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 
2 Calyx. 
3. Calyx, lente audtus. 
4. Corolla, Stamina et Piftillum. 
5. Stamina, valdd audla. 
6. Piftillum, audtum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with tips two-horned at the bafe, far 
without the bloffom and dark purple; fhaft with¬ 
out; bloffoms egg-fhaped, fhorter than the tiled 
cup; flowers grow by threes, fitting clofe upon 
the ends of the branches and white; leaves grow 
by threes, fmooth, three-flded, and tiled in fix 
divisions. „ 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, near a foot high, fmooth; 
branches few, upright; fmall branches Ample, 
grow nearly in whorls and ftiff. 
Leaves grow by threes, three-flded, blunt, 
fmooth, a little turned inwards, rather fpreading, 
forming fix angles, thickifh. 
Flowers grow in threes at the end of the 
fmall branches, fitting clofe, and of a Alining white. 
Empalement. Cup double, the outer three- 
leaved, leaflets roundifh, waved, coloured, and 
rather fpreading; the inner four-leaved, leaflets 
keeled, prefled to the bloffom, concave, roundifh, 
the length of the bloflom. 
Blossom egg-fhaped, fmooth, fkinny, white, 
a little fhorter than the cup; the fegments of the 
border upright. 
Chives. Eight flat threads. Tips two-horned 
at the bafe, without the bloffom, and dark purple. 
Point al. Seed-bud roundifh,furrowed,fmooth. 
Shaft thread-fhaped, longer than the chives. Sum¬ 
mit bluntly four-cornered, dark purple. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from March till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Flower, natural fize. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. The Empalement, magnified, 
4. The Bloffom, Chives, and Pointal. 
5. The Chives, very much magnified. 
6. The Pointal magnified. 
