HEATH with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are tubularly club-shaped, and nearly white; flowers grow from the lower part of the leaves close to the stem in whorls, are an inch long; leaves grow mostly by sixes, are linear and smooth, stiff, and long. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, grows more than two feet high and very stout; the branches grow in whorls, spreading and upright, seldom breaking into smaller branches, and like the stem. LEAVES grow by sixes, are linear, smooth, spread outward, and very long, the foot-stalks pressed to the stem. FLOWERS grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in length; the foot-stalks very short, with three floral leaves on them. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets are awl-shaped, broadest at the base, smooth, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM tubularly club-shaped, blunt ended, and nearly white; the segments of the border are reflexed. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads shorter than the blossom. Tips beardless and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed; hairy on the upper part, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit shield-shaped. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August, till December, REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement, and Blossom. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives, and Pointal, magnified. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, a Tip magnified. 6. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Plukenetia nana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, longissimis, exsertis; floribus solitariis, cernuis, bracteis remotis; corolla sub cylindrica, sub-truncata, atro-purpurea; oris laciniis minutis, erectis; calycibus simplicibus; foliis ternis, confertis, inflexis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS sub-pedalis, erectus, robustus; rami verticillati, patenti; ramuli frequentissimi, sub-erecti. FOLIA terna, linearia, glabra, arcuata, inflexa, subtus sulcata; petiolis ferè nullis. FLORES in medio ramorum ex axillis foliorum verticillati, solitarii; pedunculi longissimi, bracteis minutis, remotis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis glabris, carinatis, ovatis, acutis, coloratis, adpressis. COROLLA sub-cylindrica, sub-truncata, glabra, atro-purpurea; laciniis limbi obtusis, obsoletis, viridibus, erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, plana, longitudine corollæ. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ, filamentorum longitudine, attenuata in filamenta. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, glabrum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus, staminibus paulo longior. Stigma obsolete tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Junii, in Novembrem. 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, Stigma auctum. 6. Germen auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.