PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, inclusus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips within the blossom, and two-horned at their base: flowers terminal in bunches: blossoms pitcher-shaped, and swelled: leaves by fours, and linear: stem bushy. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot or more high, round and bushy. LEAVES by fours, linear, pointed, with a recurved base and an ascending point, ciliated, and shining. FLOWERS terminate the branches in bunches: footstalks purple, and furnished with two small opposite floral leaves at their base. EMPALEMENT four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, pointed, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM large, swelled, of an ovate form, smooth, and shining; narrowed at the mouth, which is of a pale flesh-colour: the segments of the border are equal, spreading, flesh-coloured, and of a deep red in the centre. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at their base. Shaft thread-shaped, and within the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from April till August. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA primuloides. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quinis, confertis; floribus sessilibus, terminalibus, fastigiatis; frutex pygmæus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, spithamæus, erectus, dumosus; ramuli numerosi, adscendentes. FOLIA quina, subulata, supra plana, subtus sulcata, glabra, crassiuscula, erecta, conferta. FLORES sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni et quini, terminales. CALYX. Perianthium duplex; exterius triphyllum, foliolis subulatis, marginibus pilosis; interius tetraphyllum, foliolis longioribus. COROLLA ventricosa, pellucida, ore arctata, quod ornatum est in modum primulæ; laciniis cordatis, expansis, albis, subtus læte rubris. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus sub-inclusus. Stigma sub-exertum, tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Maio in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flores varietatum duarum. 4. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom; leaves by fives, crowded: flowers sessile, fastigiate, and terminal: a dwarf shrub. DESCRIPTION.