LEAVES grow by threes, three-sided, smooth, blunt, forming six edges, and almost upright; the foot-stalks are very short, and pressed to the branches. FLOWERS grow in loose spikes, near the ends of the small branches from the lower part of the leaves; the foot-stalks very long, having three small floral leaves near the lower part. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are fringed, concave, pressed to the blossom, and egg-shaped. BLOSSOM, almost globular, small, and flesh-coloured; the segments small, and upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud globular. Shaft cylindrical, and within the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August, till February. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Blossom, and Empalement. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 5. A Chive, magnified. 6. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA purpurea. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, exsertis; corollis verticillatis, tubulosis, a basi incurvata, sensim ampliatis; foliis subsenis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, bipedalis, pubescens, basi simplicissimus, dein verticillatim ramosus, ramis simplicibus, adscendentibus. FOLIA subsena, linearia, recurvato patentia, supra plana, subtus revoluta, acuta, rigida, brevissimis adpressis petiolis. FLORES verticillati, subterminales, dilute purpurei, pedunculis brevissimis instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis erectis, ovato-oblongis, acuminatis; bracteis binis adpressis. COROLLA tubulosa, basi incurvata, sensim versus apicem dilatata; ore quadrilobo æquali patente. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ, bipartitæ. PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum. Stylus filiformis, filamentis longior. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Julii ad Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx et Bractea lente aucta. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossoms; which grow in whorls, are tubular, gradually widening from an incurved base; leaves growing mostly by sixes. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, grows two feet high, downy, quite intire at the base, then throws out a number of whorled, simple, ascending branches. LEAVES growing generally in sixes, linear, bent backward and spreading, plain on their upper, and rolled back on their under, surface, sharp-pointed, inflexible, with short leaf-stalks pressed closely to the stem. FLOWERS grow in whorls, nearly at the top of the branches, of a fine light purple, and furnished with very short foot-stalks. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are of an oblong-oval shape, upright, and pointed; with two floral-leaves close to it.