ERICA viridiflora. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris minute bicornutis, subexsertis: 
floribus sessilibus,nutantibus: foliisternatis: caule 
ramoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis humilis, erectus, fruticosus: ramulis 
plerumque ternis. 
Folia terna, glabra, sub-trigona, curvata, 
acuta. 
Flores terni in apicibus ramulorum, depen- 
dentes: pedunculi nulli: perianthium duplex, ex- 
teriori triphyllo : corolla viridis, viscosa, metulse- 
flora: laciniis limbi erectis. 
Germen tiarffiforme, sulcatum, ad basin necta- 
riis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei. 
Floret a mense Junii usque ad Augustum. 
referentia. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina et pistillum. 
3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 
4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with tips minutely two-horned just with¬ 
out the blossom: flowers sessile, and hanging 
down : leaves by threes: stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem low, upright, and shrubby: smaller 
branches mostly by threes. 
Leaves by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided, 
curved, and pointed. 
Flowers grow by threes at the ends of the 
smaller branches, hanging down: footstalks none: 
cup double, the outer one three-leaved : blossom 
green, clammy, and skittle-shaped : 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 June till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. Chives and Pointal. 
3. A Chive, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
This little green-flowered shrub at first sight bears a strong resemblance to the E. clavata, but on 
close inspection will be found to differ in almost every particular, except colour, from that species. 
We first observed the E. viridiflora, at the Hammersmith nursery, in 1820, at which period there was 
only one plant of it that had been raised from Cape seed : at present there are many other plants of 
it, that will, upon comparison, be found to differ from the E. clavata, not only in the exterior, but 
also in the interior of the blossom, as the anthers in this species are minutely bicornute, and in the 
other beardless. 
