ERICA perspicua. 
CHARACTER SPECIEICUS, 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus cy- 
lindricis, villosis, ramulos terminantibus: foliis 
ternis, linearibus. 
DESCRI PTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, erectus^ et 
patens : ramuli numerosi. 
Folia terna, linearia, subtus sulcata: petiolis 
longis, adpressis. 
Flores terni, ramulos terminantes : pedunculi 
colorati, bracteis duabus parvis adpressis : corolla 
cylindracea et pilosa, ad basin purpurea, et su- 
perne alba; laciniis ovatis, patentibus: calycis 
foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis. 
Germen tiarseforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonce Spei. 
Floret a mense April! in Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina et Fistillum. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
EIeatii, with beardless tips within the blossom 2 
flowers cylindrical, hairy, and terminating the 
small branches: leaves by threes, linear. 
Description. 
Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright, 
and spreading : smaller branches numerous. 
Leaves by threes, linear, furrowed beneath, 
with longish footstalks pressed to the branches. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches by 
threes: peduncles coloured, with two small floral 
leaves pressed to them : blossom cylindrical and 
hairy, purple at the base, and white at the upper 
part: segments of the border ovate and spread¬ 
ing: leaves of the empalement lance-shaped, and 
pressed to the blossom. 
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Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of April till November. 
REFERENCE, 
1. The Empalement. 
2. Chives and Pointal. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
This elegant plant resembles the E, Linnsea, and is by most cultivators as well known by the appella¬ 
tion of the old Linneoides as by the specific title of perspicua. 
It flowers early in spring, and continues in successive bloom till late in autumn, It was first raised 
from Cape seed in the Royal gardens at Kew, and flowered in the nursery of Mr. Williams at Turn- 
ham Green about the year 1796. ' 
Our figure was taken from a luxuriant specimen in the summer of 1807. 
