ERICA XJhria, pilo sa. 
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris aristatis inclusis; stylo exerto, 
apice curvato; corollis clavato-tubulosis, curvatis, 
pilosis, rubro-purpureis, apicibus virentibus ; floribus 
terminalibus ; foliis terms, pilosis. 
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom ; 
shaft without, and curved at the end. Blossoms tu¬ 
bularly club-shaped, curved, and hairy, of a red 
purple, green at the ends; flowers terminal ; leaves 
by threes, and hairy. 
DESCRIPTION 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis. Rami pauci, erec- 
ti; ramuli frequentissimi, erecto-patentes. 
Stem shrubby, grows two feet high. Large 
branches few and upright; the small branches nu¬ 
merous, upright, and spreading. 
Folia terna, linearia, pilosa, subtus sulcata; pe- 
tiolis adpressis. 
Leaves by threes, linear, hairy, and furrowed 
beneath : footstalks pressed to the branches. 
Flores terminales, sub-bini, numerosi; pedunciili 
crassiusculi, bracteis duabus minutis instructi. 
Flowers terminate the small branches, mostly by 
twos, and numerous ; footstalks rather fleshy, having 
two small floral leaves. 
Calyx. Periauthium tetraphyllum, canalicula- 
tum; foliolis ovato-acuminatis, intus viscosis, ad¬ 
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, channelled; 
leaflets pointedly egg-shaped, clammy on the inside, 
pressis. 
and pressed to the blossom. 
Corolla clavato-tubulosa, curvata, pilosa, rubro- 
purpurea, apice virescens, viscosa; laciniis limbi 
erectis. 
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, andhairy, 
of a red purple, green-ended and clammy. Seg¬ 
ments of the border upright. 
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antherse 
aristatse, inclusas. 
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, 
and within the blossom. 
Pistillum. Germen tiaraeforme, ad basin sum- 
mumque glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, exertus, 
apice curvatus. Stigma tetragonum. 
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, glandular at 
the base and top. Shaft thread-shaped, without the 
blossom, curved at the point. Summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret ab Augusto in Decembrem, 
Flowers from August till December. 
REFERENT I A. 
REFERENCE. 
1 . Inferior pars Folii lente aucta. 
1 . The under side of a Leaf magnified. 
2 . Flos, magnitudine naturali. 
2 . A Flower, natural size. 
3 . Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 
3 . The Empalement and floral leaves magnified. 
4 . Stamina libera, anthera una diducta lente aucta. 
4 . The Chives free, one tip detached magnified. 
5 . Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5 . Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6 . Germen lente auctumu 
6 . The Seed-bud magnified. 
