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3. The Chives and Pointal.

4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified.

5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified.

ERICA grandiflora.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, cohærentibus, valdè corollam excedentibus; floribus verticillatis, horizontalibus; corollis clavatis, aurantiis, sesquipollicaribus, glabris; foliis sub-quaternis, patentibus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, tripedalis et ultra, strictissimus; rami simplicissimi, erecti, verticillati.

FOLIA quaterna, levitèr sulcata, rigida, recta, sub-pollicaria, petiolis laxis.

FLORES ex axillis foliorum sub-apice ramorum verticillati; pedunculi brevi, bracteis tribus, subulatis, instructi.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, adpressis, glabris.

COROLLA clavata, sesquipollicaris, parum curvata, glabra, aurantia; laciniis æqualibus, suberectis.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheris muticis, bifidis, lateribus cohærentibus, longè exsertis.

PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus paulo longior. Stigma apice concavum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Maii, in Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum, auctum.

4. Pistillum, et Germen, Stigma diductum et lente auctum.

5. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, sticking together, and protruding considerably beyond the blossom; flowers grow in whorls horizontally; blossoms club-shaped, orange coloured, an inch and half long, and smooth; leaves grow mostly by fours, spreading.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, upright, grows three feet high or more, and very stiff; branches very simple, upright, and grow in whorls.

LEAVES grow by fours, are slightly furrowed, harsh, straight, near an inch long, with loose foot-stalks.

FLOWERS grow from the foot-stalks of the leaves, close to the stem, near the summit of the branches, in whorls; foot-stalks short, having three awl-shaped floral leaves on them.