BLOSSOM big-bellied, purple, ribbed, and downy, with the mouth oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour; the segments are heart-shaped, and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, which are twisted, and fixed into the receptacle; the tips are crested, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and purple. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till October. 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 exsurgens. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, exsertis; foliis quaternis, mucronatis, apicibus reflexis; corollis clavato-cylindraceis, verticillatis, aurantiis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, erectus, basi simplicissimus; rami verticillati, simplices, erecti. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, apice reflexa, mucronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata, unguicularia, petiolis adpressis. FLORES in medio ramorum verticillati, recti; verticilli alter alteri exsurgentes; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, viscosis, adpressis. COROLLA clavato-cylindrica, pollicaria, aurantia; ore limbo quadrilobo revoluto, laciniis superioribus longioribus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, magnæ, exsertæ. PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus longior. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Septembris, in Martium. 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 beardless tips, without the blossom; leaves grow by fours, are sharp pointed, and bent back at the point; the blossoms are cylindrically club-shaped, grow in whorls, and orange coloured. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, rather more than a foot high, upright, and simple at the base; the branches grow in whorls, are simple and upright. The LEAVES grow by fours, are linear, smooth, bent downward at the point, which is sharp, smooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface, half an inch long, with the footstalks pressed to the branches. The FLOWERS grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, straight out; the whorls rise out of each other in succession; the foot-stalks are long, having three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, tapered, keel-shaped, clammy, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM, cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long and orange coloured; the segments of the mouth are four, which are rolled back, the upper longer than the lower ones.