Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded umbels, often budding. Blossom small, bell-shaped, of a pale purple, and sweet-scented. Leaves by fours, blunt-ended. Stem a foot high. The large and small branches are numerous.

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

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement magnified.
2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA rugosa.

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