Tips beardless, within the blossom. The flowers terminate the branches in umbels of 3 to 6. Empalement pressed to the blossom. Blossom pitcher-shaped, erect and spreading, of a red purple colour: segments of the border equal, and spreading. Leaves by threes, curved, awl-shaped, and sharp-pointed. Stem shrubby, a foot or more high. The small and large branches are thread-shaped and ascending.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till August.

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1. A leaf magnified.
2. The empalement.
3. A chive magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA costata, superba.

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