ERICA Lawsonia. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Ehica antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quaternis: 
corollis tubaeformibus: caule humili, fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Cauus pygmaeus: ramis et ramulis filiformi- 
bus, virgatis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, erecto-pa- 
tentia. 
Flores in medio ramorum, sparsi: peduncu- 
lis brevibus. 
Corolla rubra, tubseformis, tenuissima: oris 
laciniis acuminatis, patentibus. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a Mense Junio ad Augustum. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Calyx lente auctus. 
3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una 
lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
JJeath with beardless tips, within the blossom: 
leaves by fours: blossom trumpet-shaped: stem 
low and shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
A dwarf shrub : the small and large branches 
thread-shaped and twiggy. 
Leaves by fours, linear, pointed, and between 
erect and spreading. 
Flowers grow about tbe middle of the 
branches, scattered : footstalks short. 
Blossom red, trumpet-shaped, and very slender: 
segments of the border are sharp-pointed and 
spreading. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from June till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement magnified. 
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
This elegant dwarf shrub was named after the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart. Our figure was 
drawn in the summer of 1818 from a plant four years old; and if we can judge from the appear¬ 
ance of those plants we have seen in different collections, it will continue to be, as it is at present, 
slow in growth and low in stature. 
