Tips beardless, within the blossom, shaft without. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten, with very long red footstalks. Blossoms pitcher-shaped: segments of the border spreading and equal. Leaves by threes, three-sided, and awl-shaped, flat on the upper surface, and keeled beneath. Stem a foot high, and shrubby.

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

REFERENCE.

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

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ERICA Broadleyana.

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