Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Aprili ad Septembrem. 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 tips two-horned at their base, included within blossoms of an oblong-ovate form, inflated and smooth; leaves ciliate, growing by fours. DESCRIPTION. THE STEM shrubby, about half a foot high, cylindrical, thickish, very much branched, the branches bend downward, then ascend. LEAVES growing by fours, linear, pointed with a recurved base, and an ascending point, ciliate, flat on their upper, and rolled back on their under, surface, shining, the leaf-stems very short, and pressed to the branches. FLOWERS terminal, numerous, upright, level, and in bunches; the footstalks purple, having two small opposite floral leaves at their base. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, erect, keel-shaped, and ciliate. BLOSSOM of an oblong-ovate form, narrowed toward the top, with a slightly reflexed border, of a whitish purple, smooth, and shining. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, nearly of a length with the blossomed, fixed into the receptacle. Tips within the blossom small, cleft, and two-horned at their base. POINTAL. Seed-vessel oblong and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, of an equal length with the threads. Summit nearly four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till September. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement with the Blossom. 2. The Empalement and Floral-leaf 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 verticillata. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; corollis pollicaribus, cernuis, ventricoso-cylindracis, saturate rubris, pedunculis longissimis; foliis quaternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS erectus, bipedalis, basi simplicissimus, rami verticillati, subsimplices, erecto-patentes. FOLIA quaterna, glabra, lineari, acuta, subtus sulcata, recta. FLORES in apicibus ramorum verticillati, nutantes, conferti; pedunculi longissimi, bracteis tribus ad basin instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, acuminatis, apice dilute rubris, basi viridis. COROLLA ventricoso-cylindrica, pollicaris, ad basin-tetragona, profunde costata; ore arctata, tenuissime laciniata; saturate rubentia. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen globosum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis longitudine corollæ. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Julii, in Novembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.