ERICA tenuiflora carnea. 
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antlieris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos 
terminant: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis pedalis et ultra, fruticosus, flexuosus, 
filiformis, virgatus. 
Folia quaterna, leviter tomentosa, linearia,, 
brevia, acuta, supra plana, subtus sulcata. 
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Flores ramos terminant, terni vel quaterni, 
plerumque adscendentes: corolla tubseformi, te- 
nuissima, incarnata : laciniis oris mqualibus, cor- 
datis, acutis, patentib us. 
Germen tiarmforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon as Spei. 
Floret per menses mstivales. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Anther® et Pistillum. 
3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom : 
flowers terminate the branches: leaves by fours: 
stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot or more high, flexuose, thread¬ 
shaped, and twiggy. 
Leaves by fours, slightly downy, linear, short, 
pointed, flat on their upper surface, and fur¬ 
rowed beneath. 
Flowers terminate the branches by threes 
and fours, mostly ascending: blossom trumpet¬ 
shaped, very slender, and flesh-coloured : seg¬ 
ments of the border equal, heart-shaped, point¬ 
ed, and spreading. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the summer months. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal. 
3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
Qui figuie lepiesents a fine new species of Erica communicated from the extensive collection of 
His Giace the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, where it was raised from seed in the summer of 
1824. In its foliage it very much resembles the E. tenuiflora alba, figured in our third volume : the 
principal if not the only distinction is, when in bloom, the delicacy of its flowers, whose fine blush- 
colour gives it a decided preference over the white variety. It is considered as a variety through the 
medium of the E. spuria, a mule to which the genus is indebted for many fine variations. 
