REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA mammosa, _minor_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; stylus sub-exertus; floribus verticillatis, pendulis, ventricoso-cylindricis supra basin constrictis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; rami verticillati, curvati. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, glabra, curvata; seniora patentia, juniora adscendentia. FLORES semi-unciales, in summitate ramorum verticillati, penduli; pedunculi colorati, bracteis duabus minutis remotis instructi. CALYX tetraphyllum; foliolis lato-ovatis, acutis, apicibus coloratis, adpressis. COROLLA purpurea, ventricoso-cylindrica, apice attenuata, ad basin constricta; laciniis minutis, erectis, ovatis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Septembris in Decembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Stylus, stigmate aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom; the shaft just without; flowers grow in whorls, hanging down, of a swelled cylinder shape pinched in at the base; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high; branches grow in whorls, and are curved. LEAVES by fours, linear, smooth, and curved; the older ones spreading, and the younger ones ascending. FLOWERS half an inch long, near the summits of the branches in whorls hanging down; footstalks coloured, having two small floral leaves at a distance from the cup. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets of a broad egg-shape, pointed, the ends coloured, and pressed to the blossoms. BLOSSOM purple, of a swelled cylinder shape, tapered at the end and pinched in at the mouth; segments of the border are very small, upright, and oval. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of September till December. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA metulæflora. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: corollis metulæformibus: foliis quaternis vel quinis. Caulis fruticosus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis et ultra, erectus, fruticosus: ramis confertis, in verticillis irregularibus.