Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by threes. Blossom flask-shaped, ribbed, undulated, and of a red colour. Leaves by threes, linear, short, and ascending in irregularly crowded whorls. Stem shrubby. Branches twiggy, and flexuose.

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

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement.
2. A chive, tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO THE
FIGURES IN VOL. VI.

[251.] Erica acuminata angustiflora.
[252.]Bauera.
[253.]Beaumontia.
[254.]calycina melastoma.
[255.]Comptoniana.
[256.]costata superba.
[257.]crassifolia.
[258.]cruciformis.
[259.]droseroides minor.
[260.]echiflora purpurea.
[261.]exsurgens hybrida.
[262.]flagelliformis.
[263.]foliacea.
[264.]glomerata.
[265.]grandinosa.
[266.]Imperialis.
[267.]Lawsonia.
[268.]Linnæa superba.
[269.]metulæflora discolor.
[270.]minutæflora.
[271.]mirabilis.
[272.]mollis.
[273.]mundula.
[274.]nivalis.
[275.]ollula.
[276.]Erica peltata.
[277.]pellucida rubra.
[278.]pilulifera.
[279.]pygmæa.
[280.]quadrangularis.
[281.]radiata discolor.
[282.]recurvata.
[283.]reflexa.
[284.]refulgens.
[285.]ruber-calyx.
[286.]Russeliana.
[287.]Sainsburyana.
[288.]Salisburia.
[289.]serpyllifolia.
[290.]Solandroides.
[291.]stellifera.
[292.]suaveolens.
[293.]Templea.
[294.]tenuiflora carnea.
[295.]translucens.
[296.]transparens.
[297.]turbinata.
[298.]vernex rubra.
[299.]viridiflora.
[300.]undulata.