Tips beardless, within the blossom; flowers sessile, in terminal bunches; blossom bellied, and red; segments of the border, are heart-shaped, spreading and white, of a bright red on the under side; leaves mostly by fours, linear; stem low and shrubby, with numerous small branches.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till September.

REFERENCES.

1. The empalement, magnified.
2. The chives and pointal.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA curviflora, rubra.

DESCRIPTIO.