Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furnished with honey-bearing pores at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, often just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement and Blossom.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified.
4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified.
5. The Seed-bud magnified[Pg 221].

[Pg 224][Pg 223][Pg 222]

ERICA rubens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Erica, antheris cristatis inclusis, foliis quaternis, corollis late ovatis terminalibus.