ERICA splendens. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje aristatae, inclusae. Flores plerumque quaterni, 
patentes, terminales : Corollis uncialibus, ovato-cylin- 
draceis, villosis, coccineis: oris laciniis erecto-patulis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, tomentosa, adscendentia. 
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra. Rami nume¬ 
rosi, tomen tosi. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow 
mostly by fours, spreading, and terminal. Blossoms an 
inch long, ovately cylindrical, villose, of a scarlet colour : 
segments of the border upright, and spreading. Leaves 
by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and ascending. Stem 
shrubby, upright, a foot or more high. Branches nu¬ 
merous and downy. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Empalement. 
2. A chive magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
