STEM shrubby, grows a foot high, upright, branching, and slender; the branches are simple. LEAVES grow by threes, are three-sided, linear, sharp-pointed, smooth, slightly furrowed on the under part, and upright; the foot-stalks are pressed to the stem. The FLOWERS grow from the bottom of the foot-stalks of the leaves, singly, are bent downward, and whitish; the foot-stalks are curved, and whitish. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are coloured, sharp-pointed, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM swelled at the lower part, and straitened at the mouth; the border is four-lobed; segments equal, pointed, and rolled back. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, which are bent, and fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and smooth. Shaft linear, curved, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from April, till July. 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. 6. The Capsule. [Illustration] ERICA ampullacea. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; foliis quaternis, retortis; floribus viscosis, umbellatis, ampullaceis, striatis, sub-sesquipollicaribus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus; rami flexuosi, filiformes. FOLIA quaterna, trigona, ciliata, retorta, mucronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata; petioli brevissimi, adpressi. FLORES umbellati, sæpe quatuor, viscosi, terminales; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus spathulatis instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis spathulatis, margine ciliatis, viscosis, adpressis. COROLLA basi inflata, apice attenuata, longitudinaliter striata, sub-sesquipollicaria, ore arctata, saturate purpurea; laciniis ovatis, expansis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ inclusæ, bifidæ, basi bicornes. PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus exsertus, filiformis. Stigma tetragonum, virescens. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium unum lente auctum. 2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 6. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned at their base, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, and are rolled back; the flowers are clammy, grow in bunches, are flask-shaped, striped, and nearly an inch and a half long. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, grows about a foot high, and branching; the branches are crooked, and thread-shaped. LEAVES grow by fours, are three-sided, fringed, rolled back, sharp-pointed, smooth on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface; with short footstalks, pressed to the branches.