ERICA mutabilis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
■ Antherje sub-exertae, basi bicornes. Flores terminales > 
in umbellis irregularibus, plerumque horizon taliter siti. 
Pedunculi longissimi, capillares, colorati, glandulis tecti. 
Calyx lanceolatus, coloratus, glandulosus, adpressus. 
Corolla tubulosa, costata, leviter pilosa, imprimis satu¬ 
rate purpurea, denique pallidior. Folia terna, quaterna, 
ad basin plantse quina, supra 'convexa, subtus sui* 
cata, margine pilis longis obsita. Caulis fruticosus. 
Rami numerosi, erecto-patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips just without the blossom, with two horns at their 
base. Flowers terminate the branches in irregular um¬ 
bels, mostly in a horizontal direction. Footstalks very 
long, thread-shaped, coloured, and covered with glands. 
The empalement is lance-shaped, coloured, glandular, 
and pressed to the flower. Blossom tubular, ribbed, and 
slightly hairy, of a deep purple at first, and afterwards 
paler. Leaves by threes and fours, and towards the base 
of the plant they grow in fives, convex on their upper 
surface, and furrowed' beneath, with long hairs on their 
margins. Stem shrubby. The branches are nume¬ 
rous, and between erect and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from February till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified, 
4. The seed-bud magnified. 
