Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches in threes, fours, or fives, erect or spreading. Blossom two-coloured, white above and flesh-coloured beneath, tubular, squared, with four valves or seams: segments of the border rolled back. Leaves numerous, scattered, sword-shaped, curved, ascending and spreading, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem a foot and a half high, shrubby, upright, and branching: the large and small branches long.

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

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A Chive.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA radiata discolor.

DESCRIPTIO.