LEAVES grow by fours, are harsh, sawed, sharp, shining, three-sided, and spreading, the point bent inwards; with very short floral leaves pressed to the stem. FLOWERS are terminal, two or three together at the end of the smaller branches, bending a little downward; the footstalks are short, having three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets are spear-shaped, sawed, and bent outward. BLOSSOM near an inch long, almost cylindrical, orange yellow, a little contracted at the top; the segments of the mouth are bent back. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips nearly without the blossom, and beardless. POINTAL. Seed-vessel cylindrical. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August till December. 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. [Illustration] ERICA setacea. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis; stylo longissimo, exserto; floribus racemosis, terminalibus, ternis; corollis urceolatis, pallidis, minutis; foliis ternis, hispidis; caulis flexilis, filiformis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosi, tenuissime scabri, villosi. FOLIA terna, linearia, arcuata, obtusa, supra sub-scabrida, margine setacea, revoluta; petioli brevissimi. FLORES in ultimis ramulis terminates, sub-terni, spicati; pedunculi longitudine florum, bracteis tribus, ad basin instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, apice pilosis, adpressis. COROLLA urceolata, glabra, sub-albida, minuta; laciniæ limbi sub-erectæ, obtusæ. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ inclusæ, ad basin bicornutæ. PISTILLUM. Germen sub-globosum, sulcatum. Stylus exsertus, longissimus. Stigma maximum, tetragonum, purpureum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi. Februarii, in Aprilem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, et Corolla. 3. Calyx, auctus. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 6. Stamen unum, auctum. 7. Pistillum, lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom, the shaft very long and without; flowers grow in long bunches, terminating the small branches by threes; blossoms pitcher-shaped, pale and small; leaves grow by threes, with harsh hair on them; stem weak and thread-shaped. DESCRIPTION. STEM larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped, grow zig-zag, are a little rough and hairy. LEAVES grow by threes, are linear, bowed, blunt, roughish on the upper side, bristly and rolled back at the edge; the foot-stalks very short. FLOWERS grow mostly by threes at the extremity of the smaller branches, forming a spike; the foot-stalks the length of the flowers, having three floral leaves at the base.