ERICA Walkeria rubra. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, foliis quaternis 
brevissime petiolatis, umbellis fastigiatis quadri- 
floris. 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, 
leaves in fours with very short footstalks, and four- 
flowered level-toppped umbels. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, flexuoso-erectus, ramis 
ssepe subfasciculatis, patulis, cortice fusco. 
Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose-erect, with 
branches often a little bundled, rather spreading, 
and a brown bark. 
Folia quaterna, patula, Hhearia, glabra, nuda, 
nitida, petiolis brevissimis. 
Leaves in fours, rather spreading, linear, smooth, 
naked, shining, with very short footstalks. 
Flores quatemi, ad apices ramulorum terminales, 
in capitulis sessilibus. 
Flowers in fours, terminal on the lesser 
branches, in little sessile heads. 
Calyx duplex, exterior triphyllus, foliolis subu- 
latis, marginibus membranaceis ; interior tetraphyl- 
lus, foliolis duplo longioribus, appressis, serrulato- 
laceris. 
Empalement double, the outer three-leaved, 
with the leaflets awl-shaped, with skinny margins; the 
inner four-leaved, with leaflets twice as long, pressed 
to the blossom, and serrulate-torn. 
Corolla ovato-conica, levigata, nitida, carnea, 
laciniis subovatis recurvis. 
Blossom ovate-cone-shaped, polished, shining, 
flesh-coloured, with segments nearly egg-shaped 
and recurved. 
Stamina, filamenta octo, capillaria. Anthers 
mutics, incluss, fuses. 
Chives, eight hair-like threads. Tips beard¬ 
less, within the blossom, brown. 
Pistillum. Germen tiarsforme, subsulcatum: 
stylus altitudine tubi corolls : stigma tetragonum. 
Pointal. • Seed-bud turban-shaped, slightly fur¬ 
rowed. Shaft as high as the tube of the blossom ; 
summit four-cornered. 
Habitat ad Caput Bons Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a mense Februarii in Junium. 
Flowers from February till June. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
1 . Calyx lente auctus. 
1 . The Empalement magnified. 
2 . Corolla. 
2 . The Blossom. 
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3 . Stamina et Pistillum, anthera unica lente 
aucta. 
3 . The Chives and Pointal, with one of the tips 
magnified. 
4 . Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4 . The Pointal, with the summit magnified. 
5 . Germen lente auctum. 
5 . The Seed-bud magnified. 
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