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4. The Blossom.

5. The Chives, and Pointal, one tip magnified.

6. The Pointal.

7. The Pointal, magnified.

ERICA ventricosa.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus inclusis; corollis oblongo-ovatis, ventricosis, glabris; foliis quaternis ciliatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, semipedalis, teres, crassiusculus, ramosissimus, ramis recurvato-adscendentibus.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, acuta, basi recurvata, apice adscendentia, ciliata, supra plana, subtus revoluta, nitida, petiolis brevissimis adpressis.

FLORES terminales, plures, fastigiati, erecti; pedunculi purpurei, basi instructa bracteis binis, parvis, oppositis.

CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum foliolis erectis, carinatis, ciliatis.

COROLLA oblongo-ovata, apice arctata, limbo æquali, quadrilobo, subreflexo, albo-purpurascens, glabra, nitida.

STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, corollæ subæqualia, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ inclusæ, parvæ, bifidæ, basi bicornes.

PISTILLUM. Germen, oblongum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, filamentis æqualis; stigma sub-tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Aprili ad Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx, et Bractea lente aucta.

3. Stamina, et Pistillum.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta.

5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned at their base, included within blossoms of an oblong-ovate form, inflated and smooth; leaves ciliate, growing by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

THE STEM shrubby, about half a foot high, cylindrical, thickish, very much branched, the branches bend downward, then ascend.

LEAVES growing by fours, linear, pointed with a recurved base, and an ascending point, ciliate, flat on their upper, and rolled back on their under, surface, shining, the leaf-stems very short, and pressed to the branches.