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

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in medio ramorum densissimè spicati, horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla urceolata, carnea, odorata. Folia sena, linearia, villosa, obtusa, horizontalia. Caulis debilis, pedalis. Rami filiformes, laxi.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossom, shaft without. Flowers in close spikes in the centre of the branches, standing out horizontally, with very short footstalks. Blossom pitcher-shaped, flesh-coloured, and sweet-scented. Leaves by sixes, linear, hairy, blunt and horizontal. Stem weak, a foot high. The branches are thread-shaped and loose.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.