ERICA vestita, purpurea .■ 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje muticae, sub-exertae. Flores in ramulorum 
mediis verticiilati, recti} corollis clavatis, rectis, polii- 
caribus, purpureis. Folia sena, linearia, tremulenta> 
acuta, glabra, attenuata in petiolos capillares semi- 
unguiculares. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, basi 
simplex, dein verticillatkn ramosus 5 ramis simplicibus, 
adscendentibus» 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers 
grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, 
straight out. Blossom club-shaped, straight out, an inch 
long, and purple. Leaves by sixes, linear, tremulous, 
sharp-pointed, smooth, and tapering into hair-like foot¬ 
stalks a quarter of an inch in length. Stem shrubby, 
two feet high, and upright, simple at the base, then 
branching out from a whorl into simple ascending 
branches. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till January. 
REFERENCE. 
J. A leaf. 
2. The empalement magnified. 
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified» 
