5. Stamina diducta; antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 6. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 7. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, just within the blossom; shaft just without; blossoms pitcher-shaped, sweet-scented, and purple; leaves by threes, turned inwards, and prickly; stem roughish. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, branching. Large and small branches are roughly haired, and between erect and spreading. LEAVES by threes, of a mealy green, bowed, turned inwards, prickly, and deeply furrowed; footstalks pressed to the branches. FLOWERS terminate the small branches in umbels, mostly by threes; footstalks prickly, and furnished with three prickly floral leaves. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped, prickly, and of a pale green. BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, purple and sweet-scented; the segments of the border are roundish and nearly upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded and just within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of March till May. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The under side of the same. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. A Flower and Leaf of a small variety. 5. The Chives detached; one tip magnified. 6. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 7. The Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Irbyana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis longissimis: corollis albis, ampullaceis, viscosis: foliis ternis, trigonis, subulatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis, erectus: rami longi, sub-simplices. FOLIA terna, trigona, subulata, recta: apice mucronato, supra plano, subtus carinato. FLORES terminales in umbellis quinis vel decem: cum pedunculis longissimis rubris, patentibus vel cernuis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis lanceolatis, carinatis, acutis, viscosis. COROLLA alba, ad basin carnea, glutinosissima, pollicaris, lucida, summatim cylindracea, ad basin inflata; ore arctata, laciniis expansis, sub-ovatis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, tenuissima, torta: antheræ basi bicornes, apice acuminatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen ovatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Idem ab infera parte depictum, dissectum, et lente auctum. 3. Calyx et bracteæ. 4. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers terminal: peduncles very long: blossoms white, flask-shaped, and clammy: leaves by threes, three-sided, and awl-shaped. DESCRIPTION.