ERICA Jasminiflora, minor . 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo sub-exer- 
to: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternis: ramulis 
numerosis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, erecto-patens: ra- 
mis longis. 
Folia terna, trigona, acuta, curvata, supra pla¬ 
na, subtus sulcata. 
Flores terminales, terni vel seni: corolla ru¬ 
bra, sesquipollicaris, summa cylindrica, ad basin 
inflata, ore arctata : lacioiis patentibus acutis: 
pedunculis longis coloratis. 
Germen tiareeforme, sulcatum, ad basin necta- 
riis melliferis. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER* 
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossoms: 
shaft just without: flowers terminal: leaves by 
threes: branches numerous. 
. DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a foot high, between erect and 
spreading: branches long. 
Leaves by threes, three-sided, pointed and 
curved, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed 
beneath. 
Flowers terminate the branches in threes or 
sixes: blossoms red, an inch and a half long, the 
upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and 
contracted at the mouth: segments spreading and 
pointed : footstalks long and coloured. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed, with 
honey-bearing nectaries at the base. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Floret a mense Aprili in Junium, 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Stamina et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
8. Flos varietatis albie. 
4. Flos varietatis striatse. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of April till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified, 
2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
3 . Flower of a white variety. 
4. Flower of a striped variety. 
Our figure represents a plant raised from seed in 1807 in the collection of the Hon. W. Irby, 
where we also found, at the same time, a variation with white flowers; and in the conservatory of the 
Countess de Yandes this year, 1811, observed another variety, the blossoms of which %ere elegantly 
striped in the tube: we have therefore added a flower of each variety to our dissections, as all the three 
plants were so very much like each other in every other particular, that we could not distinguish one 
from the other when out of bloom. 
