ERICA Echifiora^ purpurea . 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis : floribus ter- 
minalibus, tubulosis et costatis : foliis linearis 
confertis : caule fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis : ramis et ra- 
rnulis flexuosis. 
Folia irregulariter verticillati, quina vel sena, 
linearia : undulata, patentia. 
Flores in umbellis confertis, horizontales : 
corolla tubulosa, purpurea, brevis, inflata, cos- 
tata : laciniis patentibus cordatis, pedunculi 
brevi. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum : ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructurn. 
Habitat ad Caput Borne Spei. 
Floret a mense Autumnales. 
REFER ENTIA. 
I. Folium auctura. 
£. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Flos. 
4. Stamen et pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 
5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen auctum. 
7. Flos varietas. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom : 
flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed : leaves 
linear and crowded : stem shrubby. 
. DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a foot and half high : the large 
and smaller branches flexuose, 
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Leaves grow in irregular whorls, of fives and 
sixes : waved and spreading. 
Flowers grow in umbels, crowded and hori¬ 
zontal : blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, 
and ribbed : segments of the border heart-shaped 
and spreading : footstalks short. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
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Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the Autumnal months. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Flower. 
As. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
7. Flower of a variety. 
'fins handsome shrub differs not only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured in 
Yol. 3, but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears nu¬ 
merous bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches : there are two slight 
varieties, one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of which is 
given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection. 
