Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, densely whorled, and horizontal. Blossom tubular, short, inflated, and ribbed, resembling an Echium: segments of the border spreading and heartshaped. Leaves grow in irregular whorls of fives or sixes, linear, and pointed. Stem shrubby, a foot and half high.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom late in Autumn.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement.
2. Flower of a variety.
3. A chive, tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA exsurgens hybrida.

DESCRIPTIO.