STEM upright, low, and branching; the smaller branches are spreading, numerous, and whorled. LEAVES by threes, linear, obtuse, straight, and smooth. FLOWERS grow by threes at the ends of the smaller branches, and hang down, with scarcely any footstalks. EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved; the inner one four-leaved; the leaflets are broadly ovate at the base, and on the upper part awl-shaped. BLOSSOM club-shaped and green; the segments of the border are upright. CHIVES. Eight linear threads; tips beardless, without the blossom, and black. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, and a little longer than the chives. 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. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA cordata. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-exertis; floribus terminalibus, confertissime capitatis, globosis; frutex pygmæus; foliis ternis, cordatis, villosis; ramis numerosis, confertis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS humilis, spithamæus; rami et ramuli numerosi, conferti, flexuosi, patentes. FOLIA terna, cordata, patentes, marginibus revolutis, supra villosa, subtus lanata. FLORES terminales, in apicibus ramulorum, confertissimi, capitati, erecti; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis subulatis, villosis, adpressis. COROLLA globosa, glabra, albida; laciniis limbi rotundatis, patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ, nigræ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, superne villosum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Idem subtus lente auctum. 3. Calyx et Corolla. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamen lente auctum. 6. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 7. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips just without the blossom; flowers terminal, in very crowded heads, and globular; a dwarf shrub; leaves by threes, heart-shaped, and hairy; branches numerous, and crowded. DESCRIPTION. STEM low, a span high; the large and small branches are numerous, crowded together, flexuose, and spreading. LEAVES by threes, heart-shaped, spreading, rolled back at the edges, hairy on the upper surface, and woolly beneath. FLOWERS terminal, crowded very close together at the ends of the branches in upright heads; footstalks short, furnished with three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; leaflets awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM globular, smooth, and white; segments of the border round, and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, just without the blossom, and black.