STEM a foot or more high; the large and small branches are thread-shaped and numerous. LEAVES by threes, ascending, smooth, linear, and blunt; footstalks short. FLOWERS grow on the branches in small irregular umbels; footstalks flesh-coloured, and furnished at the base with three small floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, finely sawed, and pressed to the cup. BLOSSOM bell-shaped, white, and thin; segments of the border equal, and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, purple, and furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit hollow. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from March till July. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal magnified. [Illustration] ERICA longiflora. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-exsertis; floribus terminalibus, longissimis, tubulosis, curvatis, aurantiis; foliis quaternis et quinis; caulis fruticosus, ramosus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS erectus, fruticosus, bipedalis; ramulis numerosis, adscendentibus. FOLIA quaterna et quina, linearia, obtusa, glabra, subtus sulcata. FLORES in ramulis terminales, patentes, in umbellis binis vel quaternis; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus ad basin. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliis subulatis, glabris, supra canaliculatis, adpressis. COROLLA longissima, curvata, clavata, superne saturate aurantia, subtus flava; oris laciniis expansis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, capillaria, curvata, longitudine tubi. Antheræ muticæ. PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, curvatus, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Martii in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, just without the blossom; flowers terminal, and very long, tubular, curved, and of a gold colour; leaves by fours and fives; stem shrubby, and branching. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, shrubby, two feet high, with numerous small ascending branches. LEAVES by fours and fives, linear, obtuse, smooth, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches, spreading, in umbels of two to four; footstalks short, with three floral leaves at the base. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved; leaflets awl-shaped, smooth, channelled above, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM very long, curved, club-shaped, of a deep gold colour above, and yellow beneath; the segments of the border spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, which are curved, and the length of the blossom. Tips beardless. POINTAL. Seed-bud club-shaped, furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, curved, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from March till June.