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ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis, stylo exserto; floribus subterminalibus, verticillatis; corollis tubuloso-clavatis, villosis, rubro-purpureis, pollicaribus; foliolis senis, rigidis, serrato-ciliatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis; rami erecti, simplices; ramuli pauci, patento-erecti.

FOLIA sena, linearia, rigida, patentia, margine serrato-ciliata; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.

FLORES in summitate ramorum subterminales, verticillati, patenti; pedunculi brevi, bracteis tribus instructi.

COROLLA tubuloso-clavata, pollicaris, villosa, rubro-purpurea, viscosa; laciniis erectis.

STAMINA. Filamento octo, capillaria, apice incurvata. Antherae muticae, inclusae.

PISTILLUM. Germen subovatum, octo-sulcatum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei.

Floret ab Augusto, in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips, within the blossom, shaft without; flowers nearly terminate the branches in whorls; blossoms tubularly club-shaped, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and an inch long; leaves grow by sixes, harsh, and sawed at the edge as if fringed.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, simple; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.

LEAVES grow by sixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy.

BLOSSOM tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.

CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom.

POINTAL. Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till November.

REFERENCE.

ERICA ardens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis inclusis, floribus lateralibus subternis cernuis subglobosis, laciniis erecto-incurvis, foliis ternis subulatis reflexis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, semipedalis et ultra, flexuosus, ramulis erectis, patentibusque.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, reflexa, petiolis brevibus, adpressis.

FLORES laterales, saepe ternati, cernui, speciosi; pedunculi floribus sere duplo longiores, bracteis tribus, distantibus, coloratis, instructi.

CALYX tetraphyllus, foliolis ovato-acuminatis, concavis, incurvatis.

COROLLA subglobosa, ignea, laciniis erecto-incurvis.

STAMINA octo, capillaria; antherae cristatae inclusae.

PISTILLUM. Germen tiaraeforme; stylus inclusus; stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei.

Floret a mense Aprili in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom, flowers lateral chiefly in threes bowing nearly globose, with the segments erect-incurved, leaves in threes awl-shaped and bent backwards.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, half a foot high and upwards, flexuose, with branches erect, and spreading.

LEAVES, in threes, awl-shaped, bent backwards, with short footstalks pressed to the stems.

FLOWERS lateral, chiefly in threes, bowing, showy; the peduncles almost twice as long as the flowers, with three distant, coloured, floral leaves.

EMPALEMENT four-leaved, with the leaves egg-acuminated, concave, and incurved.

BLOSSOM somewhat globular, of a fiery colour, with segments erect-incurved.

CHIVES. Eight, hair-like; tips crested within the blossom.

POINTAL. Germen turban-shaped; shaft within the blossom; summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from April till June.

REFERENCE.

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