ERICA mucronata. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anther je muticae, inclusae, stylo exserto. Flores in 
ramulis terminales, terni vel seni, cernui. Pedunculi 
longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, incarnata, laciniis 
acutis patentibus. Folia terna, trigona, glabra, patentia, 
apice mucronata, incurvata, glauco-viridia. Caulis fru¬ 
ticosus, sesquipedalis, ramosus. Hami numerosi, erecto- 
patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, from three to 
six, hanging down. Footstalks long, and coloured. 
Blossom bell-shaped and flesh-coloured: segments of 
the border pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes, 
three-sided, smooth, spreading, mucronated at the end, 
turned inwards, and of a glaucous green. Stem shrubby, 
a foot and a half high, branching. The branches are 
numerous, and between erect and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement. 
2. A blossom. 
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
