DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, within the blossom, which is curved, cylindrically club-shaped, downy, terminating the branches, and of a yellow gold colour. The leaves grow by fours, are linear and smooth. Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, weak, and hairy at the top. Branches weak, and numerous; the smaller branches are very short, numerous, and scattered.


Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from July till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement and floral leaves.
2. The chives detached from the pointal, summit magnified.
3. Seed-bud and shaft, summit magnified.
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ERICA depressa.