Tips beardless, within the blossom; flowers terminate the branches in threes or sixes; blossoms red, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and contracted at the mouth; footstalks long and coloured, leaves by threes, three-sided, pointed and curved; stem shrubby, a foot high.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till June.

REFERENCES.

1. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
3. Flower of a white variety.
4. Flower of a striped variety.

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ERICA lævis.

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