FLOWERS grow in bunches, mostly of four, are clammy, and terminate the branches; the fruit-stalks are long, having three spathula-shaped floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, which are spathula-shaped, fringed at the edges, clammy, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM swelled at the base, and tapering to the top, striped longitudinally, nearly an inch and a half long, straightened at the mouth, which is of a deep purple; the segments egg-shaped, and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips within the blossom, are cleft in two, and two-horned at their base. POINTAL. Seed-vessel club-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft without the blossom, and thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered, and green. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till October. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 6. The Shaft and its Summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA baccans. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis; folia quaterna, rigida, glauca; corollis globosis, umbellatis calycibusque purpureis, DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis, ramosissimus; rami rigidi, erecti, torti. FOLIA quaterna, glauca, incurvata, subtus sulcata, rigida, serrulata. FLORES terminales, plerumque quatuor, umbellati, nutantes; pedunculi longi, purpurei, bracteis tribus instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, carinatis, adpressis. COROLLA globosa purpurea, ima quadrata; limbo quadrilobo, laciniis æqualibus, erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheraæ cristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen globosum, magnum, sulcatum; stylus subexsertus, pyramidatus; stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprilis, in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla, 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum et Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; the leaves grow by fours, are harsh, and of a whitish green; the flowers are globular, in bunches, and are, as well as their cups, purple. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high, and very branching; the branches are harsh, upright, and twisted. LEAVES grow by fours, are of a whitish green, and bent inwards, furrowed beneath, harsh, and slightly sawed at the edge. FLOWERS grow at the ends of the branches, mostly by fours, in bunches, and nodding; the foot-stalks are long and purple, having three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, keeled, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM globular, purple, and squared at the base; the border four-lobed, the segments of which are upright, and equal. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle. The tips crested, and within the blossom.