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ERICA vestita incarnata. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, foliis 6—8-nisse- 
taceis longissimis, in petiolos capillares attenuatis, 
floribus conferte verticillatis inferne albidis, superne 
laste roseis. 
DESCRIPTION 
Caulis fruticosus, rectus, bipedalis, ramis sim- 
plicibus, adscendentibus, venuste foliosis. 
Folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggre- 
gata, setacea, in petiolos capillares deorsum attenu- 
ata, et inde pereleganter tremulosa. 
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Flores aggregatim verticillati supra medium ra- 
mulorum, patuli ; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus 
foliiformibus instructi. 
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis late subulatis, ad* 
pressis. 
Corolla clavata, uncialis, parum curvata, basin 
versus albicans, superne lsete rosea. 
Stamina octo capillaria; antherse muticse, in- 
clusae. 
Pistillum. Germen tiarseforme, basi poris 
melliferis instructum. Stylus filiformis, aliquo inclu- 
sus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spsei. 
Floret mense Maii ad Augustum. 
RE FE RE NT I A. 
1. Folium. 
2. Calyx et Corolla. 
3. Calyx lente auctus. 
4. Stamina diducta, anther^ unica lente aucta. 
5 . Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
leaves in sixes to eights bristle-shaped very long, 
and attenuated into capillary foot-stalks, flowers 
whitish downwards, and bright flesh-colour above. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, upright, two feet high, with 
simple, ascending, and beautiful leafy branches. 
Leaves in sixes, sevens, or eights, erect, crowd¬ 
ed, bristle-shaped, and attenuated downwards into 
capillary foot-stalks, and thence very elegantly tre¬ 
mulous. 
Flowers in crowded whorls above the middle of 
the branches, patulous; peduncles short, furnished 
with three leaf-shaped floral leaves. 
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets 
broad awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom. 
Blossom club shaped, an inch long, a little cur¬ 
ved, whitish towards the base, upwards of a bright 
rose colour. 
Chives eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, 
within the blossom. 
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furnished with 
honey-bearing pores at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, 
just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of May until August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The Empalement and Blossom. 
3. The Calyx magnified. 
4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 
5 . The Seed-bud and Pointal,. with the summit 
magnified. 
6. The Seed-bud magnified. 
