ERICA planifolia 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers exsertae, basi bicornes. Flores sub apices 
ramorum, simplices, axillares. Pedunculi longi, colo¬ 
rati, glanduloso-pilosi. Corolla urceolata, purpurea: 
oris laciniis obtusis, erectis. Folia terna, spathulata, 
supra plana, subtus carinata: marginibus glandulosis, 
revolutis. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis. Rami et 
ramuli numerosi, erecto-patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their 
base. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, 
singly, from the insertion of the leaves. Footstalks 
long, coloured, and glandularly hairy. Blossom pitcher¬ 
shaped, and purple : the segments obtuse, and upright. 
Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, flat on their upper 
surface, and keeled beneath: the margins are glandu¬ 
lar, and rolled back. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half 
high. The large and small branches are numerous, 
and between erect and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from August till November. 
REFERENCE, 
1. A leaf shown from the under side, magnified. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
