The FLOWERS are large, growing in close bunches, fixed altogether at the end of the branches, bending downward; the foot-stalks are hairy, having three floral leaves, similar to the other leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are lance-shaped, hairy, and like the other leaves. BLOSSOM, of an inflated tubular form, hairy, and of a rich red or blood colour, the mouth slightly cut into four segments; an inch long. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-vessel cylinder shape, and hairy. Style thread-shaped, nearly without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August, till April. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives, and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA cernua. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; floribus umbellatis, cernuis, secundis, sub-ovatis, pallide-carneis; foliis quaternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis; rami sub-simplices, erecto-patenti. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, subtus sulcata, sub-scabrida; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis. FLORES in apice ramorem umbellati, cernui; pedunculi longi, colorati, bracteis tribus, linearibus, instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis minutis, subulatis, ciliatis, coloratis. COROLLA sub-ovata, pallide-carnea; laciniis limbi acuminatis, sub-erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria apice introrsum declinata. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, fulcatum. Stylus cylindricus, sub-inclusus. Stigma obsolete tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Augusti in Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen, Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; the flowers grow in bunches, nodding, all pointing one way, nearly egg-shaped, and of a pale flesh colour; leaves growing by fours. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, and grows a foot high; the branches are almost simple, upright, and spreading. LEAVES grow by fours, linear, blunt, channelled beneath, and roughish; having very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches. FLOWERS grow in bunches, at the end of the branches, nodding; the foot-stalks are long and coloured, with three linear floral-leaves on them. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are small, awl-shaped, fringed, and coloured. BLOSSOM, nearly egg-shaped, of a pale flesh-colour; the segments of the border tapered, and nearly upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, bent downward on the inner side. Tips crested, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and channelled. Shaft cylindrical just within the blossom. Summit obscurely four-cornered.