The FLOWERS grow at the end of the smaller branches, forming a close bunch; the foot-stalks are very long, and purple, having three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are egg-shaped, keeled, and pointed. BLOSSOM nearly egg-shaped, bending downward, and flesh-coloured, the mouth contracted, but slightly cut into four upright segments. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips crested, nearly within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-vessel nearly round. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from 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 jasminiflora. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; stylo exserto; corollis ampullaceis, sesquipollicaribus, laciniis cordatis, patentibus; floribus subternis; foliis ternis, trigonis, subulatis, patenti-erectis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS filiformis, erectus; rami simplicissimi, filiformes, longi, patenti. FOLIA terna, trigona, acuta, subulata, margine serrata, basi adpressa, apicem versus patula, sexfariam imbricata. FLORES terminales, sub-terni, horizontales, umbellati; pedunculi purpurei, bracteis tribus, ovatis, coloratis, instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, viscosis, purpureis. COROLLA viscosa, sesquipollicaris, summa cylindracea, ad basin inflata, ore arctata; laciniis expansis, sub-ovatis, maximis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ basi bicornes, apice acuminatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Julii, in Novembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Calyx, et Corolla. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una, lente aucta. 6. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with tips two horned at the base and within the blossom, the shaft without; blossoms flask-shaped, an inch and a half long, the segments heart-shaped and spreading; flowers growing by threes mostly; leaves grow by threes, are three-sided, awl-shaped, upright and spreading. DESCRIPTION. STEM thread-shaped and upright; the branches are quite simple, thread shaped, long, and spreading. LEAVES grow by threes, are three-sided, sharp, awl-shaped, sawed at the edge, pressed to the stem at the base, spreading towards the end, and forming six angles. FLOWERS terminate the branches generally by threes, grow horizontal, and in bunches; the foot-stalks are purple, having three oval, coloured floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, clammy, and purple.