ERICA decora. 
DESCRIPTIO® 
Anthere; muticae, inclusae. Flores spicati, laxi, in 
medio ramulorum, axillares, dependentes. Pedunculi 
longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, costata, saturate 
carnea: oris laciniis reflexis. Folia sena, linearia, ob¬ 
tusa, arcuata, petiolis longis adpressis. Caulis fruti¬ 
cosus, sesquipedalis, sub-erectus, gracilis. Rami et ra¬ 
muli verticillati. 
DESCRIPTION® 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers 
grow in large spikes, about the middle of the branches, 
from the footstalks of the leaves, and hang down. 
Flower-stalk long, and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, 
ribbed, and of a deep flesh-colour: the segments of the 
border are reflexed. Leaves by sixes, linear, obtuse, 
and bowed, with long footstalks pressed to the branches. 
Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, nearly upright, 
and slender. The small and large branches grow in 
whorls. _ 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from November till February. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. The chives magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
