STEM shrubby, grows two feet high, weak, and hairy at the top; branches weak and numerous; the smaller branches are very short, numerous, and scattered. LEAVES grow by fours, are linear, blunt, smooth, and furrowed underneath. FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches, spreading out, and forming a long spike; foot-stalks very short, with three small leaves pressed to the cup. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are awl-shaped, tapering, smooth, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM curved, club-shaped, an inch long, downy, and of a yellow gold colour; the segments of the mouth spread outward. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, which are curved, and the length of the blossom. Tips beardless. POINTAL. Seed-bud club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, curved, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from July, till November. 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 discolor. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; stylo exserto; corollis tubulosis, subcylindraceis; foliis ternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, tripedalis, teres, erectus, gracilis, superne pubescens, ramulis subsimplicibus. FOLIA terna, linearia, erecto-patentia, supra plana, subtus revoluta, nitida, saturate viridia. FLORES plerumque tres, subcernui, ramei, terminales, prope caulis summitatem. CALYX. Perianthium duplex, _interius_ tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, erectis, luteo-virentibus: _exterius_ triphyllum, foliolis brevioribus priori incumbentibus. COROLLA tubulosa, subcylindracea, ima parte, carnea, pallida, summa, flavo-virescente, limbo quadrilobo, æquali erectiusculo. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ oblongiusculæ, bipartitæ, inclusæ, aristatæ. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum. Stylus filiformis, corolla longior, apice inflexo. Stigma subtetragonum, virescens. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a Novembri in Aprilem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta. 5. Stylus, et Stigma lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom; the pointal standing out; the blossom tubular, nearly cylindrical; leaves growing by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, grows to three feet high, cylindrical, upright, slender, downy at the top, the branches seldom divided. LEAVES growing by threes, linear, between upright and spreading, smooth on the upper, and rolled back on the under, surface, shining and dark green. FLOWERS are commonly three together, bending a little downward, terminating the branches near the upper part of the stem.