BLOSSOM, clammy, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and pinched in at the mouth; the segments spreading, nearly egg-shaped and very large. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips two horned at the base, tapered to the points and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from July, till November. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Empalement, and Blossom. 4. The Chives, and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA lateralis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris cristatis, inclulis; corolla purpurea, urceolato-campanulata, ad basin plana; pedunculis longissimis; floribus umbellatis, ternminalibus, fecundis, cernuis; foliis quaternis, obtusis, glaberrimis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis; rami sub-simplices, virgati, filiformes. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, sub-trigona, crassiuscula, brevissime petiolata, petiolis adpressis. FLORES ad apices ramorum ramulorumque umbellati, cernui, secundi, purpurei; pedunculi florum triplo longitudine colorati, bracteis tribus minutis instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis minutis, adpressis, ciliatis, subulatis. COROLLA sub-campanulata ad basin plana, purpurea; laciniis limbi obtusis, suberectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheras cristatæ, atro-purpureæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, sulcatum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus staminibus longior, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum, virescens. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Augusti, in Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 6. Pistillum, lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with crested tips, within the blossom; which is purple, between bell and pitcher-shaped, flat at the base; foot-stalks very long; flowers grow in umbels at the end of the branches, point all one way and hang down; leaves grow by fours, are blunt and very smooth. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, grows a foot high; branches nearly simple, twiggy and thread-shaped. LEAVES grow by fours, linear, blunt, almost three-sided, thickish, very short foot-stalks, which are pressed to the stem. FLOWERS grow in umbels, at the end of the larger and smaller branches, nodding, all pointing one way, and are purple; foot-stalks thrice the length of the flowers, coloured, and three small floral leaves upon them. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets small, pressed to the blossom, fringed and awl-shaped. BLOSSOM approaching to bell-shape; the lower part flat, and purple; the segments of the border are blunt and rather upright