ERICA aris tata. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers inclusae, basi bicornes. Flores in ramis ter¬ 
minales, fasciculati, plerumque quaterni. Pedunculi 
longi, colorati. Corolla inflato-tubulosa, ore arctata, 
saturate purpurea, pollicaris, lucida i laciniis limbi ro¬ 
tundatis, expansis, albicantibus. Folia quaterna et quina, 
revoluta, lucida, apice aristata. Caulis fruticosus, vix pe¬ 
dalis, ramosus. Rami et ramuli flexuosi, filiformes. 
description. 
Tips within the blossoms, and two-horned at their 
base. Flowers terminate the branches in bunches, mostly 
in fours. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blossom of 
an inflated tubular form, narrowed at the mouth, which 
is of a deep purple, an inch long, and shining. The 
segments of the border are rounded, spreading, and 
white. Leaves by fours and fives, rolled back, and 
shining, with a bristle at the point. Stem shrubby ? 
scarce a foot high, branching. The small and large 
branches are flexuose, and thread-shaped. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Ip bloom in spring, and again late in autumn. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement. 
3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
