ERICA aristata, minor. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
.Antherje muticae, inclusae. Flores quaterni, patentes. 
Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata, rubra, glutinosissi¬ 
ma et lucida. Folia ternaia, subtrigona, supra plana, 
subtus sulco-exarata, marginibus pilis longis obsitis. Cau¬ 
lis erectus, fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, ramulis plerumque 
ternis verticillatis. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow by 
fours, spreading. The blossom is swelled at the base, 
tapering towards the end, red, very gummy and shining. 
Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper 
surface, and deeply furrowed beneath : the margins are 
beset with long hairs. Stem upright, shrubby, a foot or 
more high. Branches grow mostly in whorls by threes. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from June till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
2 . Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
3. Flower of a red variety. 
4. Flower of a pale variety. 
