ERICA droseroides, minor. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus lermi- 
nalibus, cernuis: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso, 
erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis spithamreus, fruticosus : ramis filiformi- 
bus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis. 
Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, raarginibus pilis 
glandulosis, micantibus. 
Flores in uuibellis terminalibus, cernui: co¬ 
rolla urceolata, lsete purpurea, costata, viscosa; 
ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo : pedun- 
culi longissimi pilis glandulosis tecti. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Floret a raense Julii in Octobrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folii pars inferior lente aucta. 
g. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Anthera una lente aucta. 
4. Gerrnen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with crested tips within the blossom : 
flowers terminal and nodding: leaves by threes : 
stem shrubby and upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a span high and shrubby: branches long, 
scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy. 
Leaves by threes, linear and blunt, with shining 
glandular hairs on the margins. 
Flowers grow in terminal umbels, nodding: 
blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple co¬ 
lour, ribbed and clammy : the mouth is oblique, 
narrowed, and of a deep blood colour : footstalks 
very long, and covered with glandular hairs. 
Native of the Cape of Good Flope. 
Flowers from the month of July till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The under side of a Leaf magnified, 
g. The Empalement magnified. 
3. A Chive magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
Our figure represents an entire plant from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from seed in the autumn 
of 1820, after an absence of fifteen years; during which period we believe it has been lost to every 
collection we are acquainted with. It can only be retained by care and attention to preserve it from 
damp, of which it is much more susceptible than the generality of this extended genus. 
