ERICA curviflora, rubra. 
DESCRIPTIO» 
Antherje muticae, sub-exertae. Flores ramulos ter¬ 
minant, solitarii, patentes, racemum sparsum formantes. 
Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla curvata, clavata, polli¬ 
caris, rubra: limbo albicante: laciniis expansis. Folia 
quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, 
pedalis, ramosus, laxus: ramulis numerosis. 
DESCRIPTION - . 
Tips beardless, and just without the blossom. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, spreading out, 
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and forming a scattered spike. Footstalks very short. 
Blossom curved, club-shaped, an inch long, and red: 
the border of a whitish colour: segments expanded. 
Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, and smooth. Stem 
shrubby, a foot high, branching, and weak. The smaller 
branches are numerous. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till January. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empal ement. 
2. Chives and pointal. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
