CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis ovato-acuminatis, marginibus revolutis glandulosis. COROLLA urceolata, glabra, purpurea: oris laciniis obtusis, erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria: antheræ basi bicornes, sub-exertæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, leviter sulcatum, supra pilosum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Augusti in Septembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Idem subtus, lente auctum. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo liberata. 6. Anthera unica lente aucta. 7. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 8. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, and just without the blossom: flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, are pitcher-shaped, and purple: footstalks long: leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, and glandular: branches numerous, and flexuose. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: the smaller and larger branches are numerous, flexuose, and between erect and spreading. LEAVES by threes, spathula-shaped, flat on their upper surface, keeled beneath, and whitish: with glandular margins rolled back. FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches, singly, from the axillæ of the leaves: footstalks long, coloured, and glandular. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved: leaflets ovately-pointed, with revolute glandular margins. BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, smooth, and purple: the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips two-horned at the base, and just within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, slightly furrowed, hairy on the upper part, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August till September. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The same shown from the under side, magnified. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives liberated from the Pointal. 6. A Chive magnified. 7. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 8. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA prægnans. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris inclusis, basi bicornibus: floribus terminalibus, fasciculatis: corollis urceolatis, inflatis: foliis quaternis, linearibus: caulis dumosus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, teres et dumosus. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, acuta, basi recurvata, apice adscendentia, ciliata, nitida. FLORES in ramulis terminales, fasciculati: pedunculi purpurei, basi bracteis binis parvis oppositis instructi. CALYX tetraphyllus, foliolis lanceolatis, acutis, adpressis. COROLLA magna, inflata, ovata, glabra, nitida, ore arctata, quod pallide carneum est: limbi laciniis æqualibus, patentibus, carneis, in centro saturate rubris. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ.