Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores quaterni, ad apices ramulorum terminales, in capitulis sessilibus. Corolla ovato-conica, lævigata, nitida, saturate carnea; laciniis sub-ovatis, patentibus. Folia quaterna, patula, linearia, glabra, nitida. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, erectus. Rami sæpe sub-fasciculati, patuli. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers in fours, terminal on the lesser branches, in little sessile heads. Blossom ovately cone-shaped, smooth, shining, and of a deep flesh-colour. The segments are nearly ovate, and spreading. Leaves by fours, rather spreading, linear, smooth, and shining. Stem shrubby, a foot high, upright. The branches are often a little bundled and spreading. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till June. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE FIGURES IN VOL. II. 51. Erica ardens. 52. australis. 53. baccans. 54. bicolor. 55. campanulata. 56. capitata. 57. coccinea. 58. concinna. 59. conferta. 60. cylindrica. 61. eriocephala. 62. fastigiata. 63. fimbriata. 64. flava. 65. flexuosa. 66. glutinosa. 67. α minor. 68. gracilis. 69. hispida. 70. horizontalis. 71. lateralis. 72. latifolia. 73. laxa. 74. Leea. 75. Linnæa. 76. Nivenia. 77. palustris. 78. Petiveriana, 79. α aurantia. 80. β hirsuta. 81. purpurea. 82. rosea. 83. Sebana, _aurantia_. 84. β lutea. 85. γ viridis. 86. sessiliflora. 87. setacea. 88. sexfaria. 89. Solandra. 90. spuria. 91. squamosa. 92. stricta. 93. taxifolia. 94. tenella. 95. tetragona. 96. vestita, _fulgida_. 97. β incarnata. 98. γ rosea. 99. umbellata. 100. Walkeria, _rubra_.
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