ERICA oppositifolia. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje muticae, inclusae. Flores in ramulis termi- 
nales, plerumque bini. Pedunculi breves, bracteis duabus 
minutis adpressis. Calyx magnus, ovatus. Corolla ur- 
ceolata, alba: laciniis reflexis. Folia binatim opposita, tri¬ 
quetra, nitida, adpressa. Caulis semipedalis, filiformis, 
ad basin ramosissimus, flexuosus. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers 
terminate the branches mostly by twos. Footstalks 
short, having two small floral leaves pressed to them. 
The empalement is large, and egg-shaped. Blossom 
pitcher-shaped, and wdiite. The segments of the border 
are reflexed. Leaves grow opposite in pairs, three-sided, 
shining, and pressed to the stem. Stem half a foot high, 
and thread-shaped: the lower part of the plant very much 
branched and flexuose. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from April till July. 
REFERENCE. 
3. The empalement. 
2 . A blossom. 
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
