ERICA ruber-calyx 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramu- 
los terminant: foliis quaternis : caule fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis pedalis : ramis et ramulis numerosis, 
flexuosis, filiformibus. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, recta, obtusa, erec- 
to-patentia. 
Flores ramulos terminant, plerumque qua- 
terni, patentes : calyce et pedunculis rubris : 
corolla metulaeformi, pellucida, imprimis alba, de- 
nique rosea : oris laciniis erectis. 
Germen tiarasforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonee Spei. 
Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Antherse et Pistillum. 
3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blos¬ 
som : flowers terminate the smaller branches : 
leaves by fours : stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot high: the large and smaller 
branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped. 
Leaves by fours, linear, straight, obtuse, and 
between erect and spreading. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, 
mostly by fours, spreading: empalement and 
footstalks red : blossom skittle-shaped, transpa¬ 
rent, white at first, then dying olf a rose colour: 
segments of the border upright. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of January till May. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal. 
3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
This species of Erica in the mutability of its flowers resembles the blossoms of the E. colorans. 
It was first raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in the summer of 1825, under the 
appellation of vuber-cah/x : a specific title of one word would have been preferable, but it is very 
characteristic of the plant when in bloom, which is a recommendation not often to be met with where 
the best specific titles are already occupied. It is a handsome dwarf shrub, with abundance of suc¬ 
cessive bloom. 
