STEM a foot high, upright: branches long, and nearly simple. LEAVES by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, and straight, with a mucronated point flat on the upper surface, and keeled beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten flowers, with very long red footstalks, spreading or nodding. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, carinated, sharp-pointed, and viscous. BLOSSOM white, flesh-coloured at the base, and extremely glutinous, an inch long, and shining, cylindrical on the upper part, and swelled out at the base, narrowed at the mouth, with the segments spreading, and nearly egg-shaped. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, very slender and twisted: tips two-horned at the base, pointed at the end, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from June till October. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The same shown from the under side, cut in two, and magnified. 3. The Empalement and floral leaves. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Pointal and Seed-bud, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA lachnæa. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis subinclusis, corollis subcampanulatis, albis; oris laciniis expansis, maximis: foliis ternis, obtusis, carnosis, imbricatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus. Rami et ramuli foliis imbricatis involuti. FOLIA terna, carnosa, obtusa, imbricata; petiolis brevibus adpressis. FLORES plerumque terni, in capitulis terminalibus. Pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus ovatis instructi. CALYX tetraphyllus; foliolis ovatis, albis, adpressis. COROLLA subcampanulata, alba; laciniis rotundis, maximis, expansis. STAMINA octo capillaria; antheræ aristatæ, subinclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a Maio in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina et Pistillum corollâ diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips just within the blossoms, which are nearly bell-shaped and white: the segments of the border are expanded and large. Leaves by threes, obtuse, fleshy, and tiled. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot high, and branching. The large and small branches are enveloped by the leaves, which are tiled. LEAVES by threes, fleshy, blunt, and tiled. Footstalks short, and pressed to the branches. FLOWERS chiefly by threes, in terminal heads. Footstalks long, which are furnished with three ovate floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped, white, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM nearly bell-shaped and white; the segments are round, large, and spreading.