STEM weak, upright, grows two feet high; the branches are few, and simple; the small branches are scattered, very short, numerous, and covered with leaves. LEAVES grow by fours, awl-shaped, bent back at the point, roughish and stiff; foot-stalks very short, and pressed to the stem. FLOWERS sitting on the ends of the smaller branches are solitary, and hang down; the foot-stalks are very short. EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the _inner_ one has four leaves, which are concave, egg-shaped, smooth, tiled, entire, and yellow; the _outer_ three-leaved, shorter than the former, and like them. BLOSSOM conical, yellow, slightly curved, having four furrows at the base, and tapering at the point; the segments of the border grow upright, are blunt, very long, pressed to the chives, and black. CHIVES. Eight flat, linear, threads. Tips beardless, linear, without the blossom, and of its length, tapering into the threads. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped, smooth and entire. Shaft without the blossom, thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit bordered, and greenish. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from February, till July. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Blossom, and Chives. 3. The Chives, and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 5. A Chive magnified. 6. The Pointal magnified. [Illustration] ERICA monadelphia. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, exsertis, attenuatis in filamenta plana. Corolla conica, sanguinea, oris laciniis erectis, adpressis. Folia terna. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis, scaber, ad basin parum ramosus. Ramuli sparsi. FOLIA terna, obtusa, sub-tomentosa, subtus sulcata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis. FLORES in ramulis, bini vel terni, terminales, cernui, in medio ramorum racemum formantes speciosissimum; pedunculis brevibus, bracteis nullis. CALYX. Perianthium duplex, coloratum; exterius triphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, apicibus virescentibus; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis latioribus majoribus. COROLLA conica, sub-pollicaris, glabra, sanguinea; oris laciniis erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo plana, corolla multoties longiora, receptaculo inserta; antheris muticis, exsertis, attenuatis in filamenta. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, tenuissime sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Augusti in Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips without the blossoms, and tapering into filaments, which are flat. The blossom is conical, of a blood colour, having the segments of the mouth upright, and pressed to the threads. The leaves grow by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, a foot and a half high, rough, branching but little at the base. The smaller branches are scattered.