HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the small branches. Blossom bell-shaped, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, mucronated at the end. Stem shrubby and branching. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot and a half high, and shrubby. The large and small branches are numerous, erect, spreading or nodding. LEAVES by threes, three-sided, smooth, between erect and spreading, with a mucronated point turned inward. FLOWERS terminate the branches, and are from 3 to 6, nodding. Footstalks long, coloured, with three mucronated floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved. The leaflets are ovate at the base, with a mucronated point, coloured, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM bell-shaped, flesh-coloured: the segments of the border are equal, and between erect and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit hollow. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from May till August. REFERENCE. 1. A Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. A Chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA mutabilis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris basi bicornibus, sub-exertis: floribus tubulosis, terminalibus, in umbellis irregularibus, inæqualiter purpureo coloratis: folia subulata, obtusa, hispida: caulis erectus, pedalis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus: rami laxi, divaricati: ramuli numerosi, erecto-patentes. FOLIA in ramulis ternata, adscendentia; in ramis quaterna et quina, ad basin plantæ recurva; supra convexa, subtus sulcata; margine pilis longissimis obsita: quædam breviora, glandulosa: petiolis glandulosis. FLORES terminales, in umbellis irregularibus, plerumque horizontaliter siti: pedunculi longissimi, capillares, colorati, glandulis tecti, cum bracteis tribus lanceolatis, glandulosis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, sulcatis, coloratis, glandulosis, adpressis. COROLLA tubulosa, costata, leviter pilosa; imprimis saturate purpurea, denique pallidior. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ bicornes, sub-exertæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a Februario in Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flos. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned at their base, and just without the blossom: flowers tubular, terminating the flowers in irregular umbels of an unequal purple colour: leaves awl-shaped, obtuse, and harshly haired: stem upright, a foot high. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby: branches loose, and straddling; smaller branches numerous, and between erect and spreading.