HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom; flowers are tubular, very short, sessile, of a yellow colour, and terminating the smaller branches; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth: stem shrubby, slender, and upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot and a half high, slender, shrubby, and upright. LEAVES by fours, linear, obtuse, and smooth, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS numerous, sessile, and terminating the smaller branches, mostly by twos, in a horizontal direction; near the end of the larger branches; the flowers are crowded together on very short branches, forming a spike. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; leaflets are broadly egg-shaped, greenish at the point, and paler beneath: with two floral leaves pressed to them. BLOSSOM jar-shaped, yellow, smooth, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments are roundish, and reflexed. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from March till June. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. A Chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Broadleyana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; flores solitarii, penduli; pedunculi longi; corolla metulæformis; folia terna; caulis erectus, fragilis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fragilis, sesquipedalis, erectus, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis. FOLIA terna, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra, fasciculata. FLORES solitarii, penduli, in medio ramorum spicam laxam formantes: pedunculi longi, colorati: bracteis tribus infra minutis. CALYX tetraphyllus; foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis. COROLLA metulæformis, rubro-purpurea; laciniis exiguis, erectis, luteis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, leviter sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret in mensibus autumnalibus. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers solitary, hanging down; footstalks long; blossom skittle-shaped; leaves by threes; stem upright and brittle. DESCRIPTION. STEM brittle, a foot and a half high, upright, and shrubby, with numerous small branches. LEAVES by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, smooth, and bundled. FLOWERS grow singly, hanging down, and forming a loose spike about the middle of the branches: footstalks long, and coloured, with three minute floral leaves on the lower part. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM skittle-shaped, of a red purple colour; the segments of the border are small, upright, and yellow.