BLOSSOM tubular, with an incurved base, gradually widening towards the mouth, which is cut into four equal, spreading lobes. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed in the receptacle. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and deeply divided. POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, longer than the threads. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till December. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement with the Blossom. 2. The Empalement and Floral-leaves magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pyramidalis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus umbellatis, sub-quaternis; corolla pyramidata, carnea, laciniis maximis, erectis; foliis sub-quaternis, linearibus, pilosis, obtusis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, ramosus, flexilis; ramuli frequentissimi, verticillati, sub-quaterni, brevi, cernui. FOLIA sub-quaterna, linearia, pilosa, tenuia, subtus sulcata; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis. FLORES in apicibus ramulorum umbellati, sub-quaterni; pedunculi recti, colorati, bracteis minutis, remotis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis, subulatis, adpressis. COROLLA campanulato-infundibuliformis, carnea; laciniis limbi acutis, maximis, semiovatis, apicibus parum patulis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum, apice octo-partitum, compressum. Stylus filiformis, erectus, subexsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Septembris, in Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 5. Anthera una lente aucta. 6. Pistillum, lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers grow in umbels mostly of four; blossom pyramid-shaped and flesh coloured, the segments very large, and upright; leaves grow generally by fours, linear, hairy and blunt ended. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, branching and flexible; small branches are numerous, grow in whorls, mostly by fours, short and hanging down. LEAVES grow most frequently by fours, are linear, hairy, thin and furrowed beneath; foot-stalks very short and pressed to the stem. FLOWERS grow at the ends of the small branches in bunches, generally of four; the foot-stalks grow straight, are coloured, having the floral leaves at a distance from the blossom. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM between bell and funnel-shaped, and flesh-coloured; the segments of the border are pointed, very large, half egg-shaped, with the ends a little spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom.