ERICA refulgens. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: 
foliis quaternis: floribus terminalibus: caule fru- 
ticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, erectus, ra- 
mulis numerosis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, longa, patenti-ad- 
sceudentia. 
Flores in ramulis terminates, plerumque qua- 
terni, cernui: corolla cylindracea, lucida, ima 
parte laste rubra, apice viridi. 
Germen tiaraforme, sulcatum, superne vil- 
losum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem. 
referentia. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera unica 
lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
5. Yarietates floribus minoribus. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom : 
shaft without: leaves by fours: flowers terminal: 
stem shrubby. 
description. 
Stem shrubby, a foot and half high, and up¬ 
right, with numerous small branches. 
Leaves by fours, linear, long, and between 
erect and spreading. 
Flowers terminate the small branches, mostly 
by fours, nodding: blossom cylindrical and 
shining, the lower part of a bright red colour, 
the mouth green. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed, hairy 
on the upper part, and furnished at the base with 
honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of July till October. 
reference. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
5. Smaller-flowered varieties. 
Our figure was taken in 1819 from plants in the Hammersmith collection, and considered as a seminal 
variety of the E. versicolor, though it certainly more resembles the E. hirta: but from these and every 
other species of Erica it may be always distinguished just previously to flowering, by the erapalements 
forming a terminal cone at the end of each flower-branch of a rich deep red colour, which only separate 
to allow the bright green ends of the buds to make their first approach towards maturity : it is therefore 
beautiful in every stage of inflorescence. 
