ERICA flagelliformis. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antlieris cristatis, inclusis: floresramoster- 
minant in umbellis: foliis ternatis : ramis virga- 
tis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis virgatus, pedalis: rami et ramuli filifor- 
mes, flexuosissimi. 
Folia ternata, erecta, crassa, obtusa, cauli ad- 
pressa. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with crested tips, within the blossom: 
flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves 
by threes: branches twiggy. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem twiggy, a foot high: the large and smaller 
branches are thread-shaped, and very flexuose. 
Leaves by threes, straight, thick, obtuse, and 
pressed to the stem. 
Flores ramos terminant in umbellis: pedun- 
culi carnei: perianthium tetrapbyllum : foliolis 
spathulatis, acuminatis, carneis: corolla urceo- 
lata, saturate carnea, ad basin pallida: oris laci- 
niis patentibus. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, ad basin necta- 
riis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Junii in Augustum. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Corolla. 
3. Autherae etPistillum,antberaunalenteaucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
6. Ramus varietatis parvae. 
7. Ramus varietatis minoris erectas. 
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels: 
footstalks flesh-coloured: empalement four-leaved: 
leaflets spathula-shaped, pointed, and flesh-colour¬ 
ed: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a deep flesh-colour, 
but paler at the base : segments of the border 
spreading. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur- 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from June till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Blossom. 
3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
6. Branch of a small variety. 
7. Branch of a smaller upright variety. 
This Erica is figured from a drawing made in the gardens of G. Hibbert, Esq. as long back as 
the summer of 1806, where it was raised from Cape seed amongst many others, and considered as 
nearer allied to the E. calijcinci than any other species. There was only one more plant of it, and 
that was of a very straggling, growth, hanging down over the sides of the pot in all directions, mak¬ 
ing a very picturesque appearance, and to which we should certainly have given the preference, if 
we had not considered it more a casualty of culture than as a permanent character,—which we had 
not the opportunity of ascertaining, as both the plants died in the autumn,—we apprehend, from an 
excessive inflorescence,—and have never since re-appeared. Among the dissections we have given 
branches of two small seminal varieties, almost distinct enough to require a separate figure. 
