ERICA foliacea. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus ramu- 
los terminantibus, quaternis ; foliis sparsis : 
caule erecto : ramis et ramulis foliis tectis. 
Heath with bearded tips within the blossom : 
flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours : 
leaves scattered : stem upright: the large and 
smaller branches covered with leaves. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Caulis pedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, ad- 
scendentibus: ramulis perbrevibus. 
Stem a foot high, shrubby: the larger 
branches long and ascending : the smaller ones 
very short. 
Folia sparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linea- 
ria, obtusa. 
Leaves scattered, numerous, ascending, linear, 
and obtuse. 
Flores ramulos terminant, quaterni, subsessi- 
les: corolla subcylindracea, curvata, cernuo- 
patente, subpollicari, flava, et transparente. 
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Flowers grow from the ends of the smaller 
branches by fours, and nearly sessile; blossom 
nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading 
and nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and 
transparent. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Floret a mense Aup-usti in Octobrem. 
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Flowers from the month of August till October. 
REFERENTIA. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamen unum lente auctum. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Chive magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
This Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa; and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, 
the specific title of depressa erecta was given to it, by which it is generally known in most col¬ 
lections;—but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacea, 
an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated either in or out of bloom. 
Our figure wais made from the collection of Mr. Lee, in the summer of 1822. 
