Floret a mense Octobris in Februarium. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Pagina inferior folii lente aucta. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are of an inflated tubular shape, closely beset with bristles, and of a yellow colour; leaves by fours, harsh, and prickly. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, two feet high; branches few, the small branches are numerous and simple. LEAVES grow by fours, are lance-shaped, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath, foot-stalks pressed to the stem. FLOWERS terminate the small branches in umbels of from three to six, nodding; peduncles very short, furnished with three floral leaves, hispid, awl-shaped, and pressed to the cup. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; the leaflets are hispid, channelled, and lance-shaped. BLOSSOM of an inflated tubular form, closely beset with bristles, an inch long; the mouth is slightly divided into four segments. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-vessel turban-shaped, hairy, and whitish. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from October till February. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The under side of a leaf magnified. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives detached, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration]ERICA aurea, _flore pallido_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; floribus verticillatis; corollis cylindraceis, luteis; foliis senis, linearibus; caule erecto, fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, sub-erectus: ramis patentibus. FOLIA sena, linearia, patentia, apice incurvata: petiolis longis. FLORES horizontaliter verticillati, prope ramorum summitatem; pedunculis brevissimis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, cum bracteis tribus adpressis. COROLLA cylindracea, luteolo-aurea, apice inflata; oris laciniis magnis, albicantibus, et patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria: antheris muticis, sub-inclusis. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips just within the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; blossom cylindrical and yellow; leaves by sixes, and linear; stem upright and shrubby. DESCRIPTIO. STEM shrubby, a foot high, nearly upright; branches spreading. LEAVES by sixes, linear, spreading, and turning inwards at the points; footstalks long.