LEAVES grow by threes, linear, awl-shaped, flat on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface, smooth, and of a deep green; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches. The FLOWERS are numerous, bending a little downward, terminating the small branches by threes or fours, near the top of the stem; the foot-stalks being very short. EMPALEMENT. The Cup is double, the _inner_ is four-leaved, which are orange-coloured, furrowed at the point, and pressed to the blossom; the _outer_ is three-leaved, shorter than the inner, and greenish at the point. The BLOSSOM is nearly cylindrical, a little narrowed at the middle, ribbed, the lower part orange colour, the mouth greenish, whose segments are reflexed. CHIVES. Eight threads, whose lower parts are spatula-shaped, and upper linear, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and almost within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-vessel globe-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered and greenish. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from October, till April. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip with its thread, magnified. 5. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA vestita alba. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; folia sena, tremulenta, linearia, conferta, attenuata in petiolos capillares; floribus clavatis, albidis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS tripedalis, laxus, erectus, basi simplicissimus, ramis simplicibus adscendentibus. FOLIA sena, conferta, glabra, linearia, tremulenta, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petioles capillares semiunguiculares. FLORES in ramulis verticillati, erecto-patentes; pedunculis brevibus bracteis tribus instructis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, adpressis, glabris, viscosis. COROLLA clavata, pollicaris, alba, pubescens; oris laciniis patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, subinclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen turbinatum, summum pilis longis coronatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii in Decembrem. 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 aucti. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossoms; leaves grow by sixes, are tremulous, linear, and crowded together, tapering into hair-like foot-stalks; the flowers are club-shaped, and white. DESCRIPTION. STEM grows three feet high, loose and upright, simple at the base, with simple ascending branches. LEAVES grow by sixes, crowded together, smooth, linear, tremulous, furrowed underneath, and tapering into hair-like foot-stalks a quarter of an inch in length.