CALYX tetraphyllum; foliolis squamosis, ovatis, carinatis, albicantibus. COROLLA globosa, purpurea; laciniis equalibus, patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme. Stylus filiformis, inclusus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. 7. Ramulus cum Involucro florum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom; blossoms globular, umbelled, and purple; the cup is scaly, and of a whitish colour; leaves by fours. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high, branching; branches thread-shaped and upright. LEAVES by fours, smooth, blunt, furrowed beneath, and slightly sawed at the edges. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of three to six in each umbel, nodding; the footstalks are purple, having three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets scaly, egg-shaped, keeled, and of a whitish colour. BLOSSOM globular, and purple; the segments are equal and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed to the receptacle; tips crested, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, and within the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of April till July. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement and Blossom. 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. 7. A branch with the Involucrum of the flowers. [Illustration] ERICA staminea. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, staminibusque extra flores solitarios divaricato-cernuis, foliis ternatis, ramis verticillatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, bipedalis, ramis numerosis, verticillatis patulis. FOLIA ternata, erecta, parva, carnosa, lucida, subtus sulcata, petiolis ramulos adpressis. FLORES solitarii, terminales, in ramulos per-numerosos, laterales, ternatos, et paulo declinatos; pedunculi bracteis tribus instructi. CALYX tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis. COROLLA parva, tetragona, luteo-albida, laciniis patentibus rotundatis. STAMINA octo, capillaria, prælonga, extra flores plus minusve pendula; antheræ muticæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, lanuginosum; stylus filiformis. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junio ad Septembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 5. Corolla varietatis albæ. 6. Stamina et Pistillum, lente aucta. 7. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 8. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER.