STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and bushy; the smaller branches are numerous, and ascending. LEAVES by fives, awl-shaped, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed on the under side, smooth, thickish, upright, and crowded. FLOWERS sessile, upright, fastigiate, and terminating the branches by fours and fives. EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the outer one is three-leaved, with awl-shaped leaflets and hairy margins; the inner one is four-leaved, with longer leaflets. BLOSSOM bellied, pellucid, narrowed at the mouth, which is ornamented like a cowslip; the segments of the border are heart-shaped, spreading, and white, of a bright red on the under side. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at their base. Shaft just within the blossom. Summit just without, and four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from May till July. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. Flowers of two varieties. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Pointal and Seed-bud, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA racemifera. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis; floribus racemosis; corollis sub-globosis, purpureis; foliis senis, oblique verticillatis, confertis, tremulis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, sub-pedalis. Rami virgati, sub-simplices. FOLIA sena, linearia, conferta, oblique verticillata, tremula. FLORES sub-terminales, racemosi, cernui, plerumque duo, pedunculis longissimis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, bracteis tribus adpressis. COROLLA sub-globosa, purpurea; oris laciniis erecto-patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo, receptaculo inserta; antheris aristatis, inclusis. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili ad Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Umbella Florum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Anthera lente aucta. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom; flowers grow in clusters; blossom nearly globe-shaped, and purple; leaves by sixes, obliquely whorled, crowded, and tremulous. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, near a foot high. Branches twiggy, and nearly simple. LEAVES by sixes, linear, crowded, irregularly whorled, and tremulous. FLOWERS nearly terminate the branches in clusters, hanging down, mostly two together, with very long foot-stalks. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with three floral leaves pressed to the foot-stalk. BLOSSOM nearly globular, purple; the segments of the border between erect and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads fixed to the receptacle; tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope.