ERICA glauca.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Er i c a , antheris crinarás, incluíís; floribus umbcllatis,
terminalibus, livide-purpuréis; pedunculis
longiflimis; bracleis ovatis, maxirnis; folia
terna, linearía, carnofa, glauca.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS erectus, fragilis, fefquipedalis; rami
erecli, iubfimpliccs, longi.
F o l i a terna, linearía, acuta, patcntia, fulcata,
glabra, carnofa, glauca ; pctiolis adprcffis.
FLORES terminales, unibellati, ñútanles; pcdunculi
longifTimi, colorati, bracleis ternis, coloratis,
ovaüs, eoncavis inftrucli.
Ca l y x . Pcriandiium letraphj Hum, foliolis
ovatis, coloratis, reflexis.
COROLLA fubconiea, atro-purpurea, ore arctala;
laciniis reflexis, acuminalis.
S t a m i n a . Filamenta nolo, capillaria, receptáculo
infería. Anthem criftata*, ad bafm gibbae,
incluía*.
Pi s t i l l u m . Germen fubglobolum, lulcaium.
Stylus inclufus, cylindricus. Stigma peltatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mcnli Maii, in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx, ct Corolla.
1 . Calyx, lente auclus.
3 . Stamina, et Pill ilium.
4. Stamina a Piliillo didtict-i.
5. Stamen unum lente auclum.
6 . Germen, Stylus, et Stigma; Stigma lcnle
auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEA TH, with crefled tips, within the bloffoms,
which grow in bunches, at the end of the branches,
and arc of a livid purple colour; the foot-fialks
very long; the rloral leaves are egg-fhaped, and
vciy large; leaves grow by threes, are linear,
fleflry, and of a fca-grecn colour.
STEM upright, brittle, grows a foot and a half
high; the branches grow upright, with few fmaller
branches, and long.
LEAVES grow by threes, are linear, pointed,
threading, furrowed, linoolh, ileuYy, and ofa feagrecn
colour; the foot-ftalks prefied to the Item.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in bunches,
and grow nodding; the foot-ftalks are very long,
and coloured, having three coloured, egg-fhaped,
concave, floral leaves.
EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which
are egg-fhaped, coloured, and rcflexed.
BLOSSOM, nearly conical, of a dark purple,
narrowed at the mouth; the fegments reflexed,
and tapered.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into
the receptacle. Tips crefted, gouty at the bafe,
and within the bloffom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud nearly globular, and
furrowed. Shaft within the bloffom, and cylinder
fhaped. Summit lhield-fhaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, til! July.
REFERENCE,
l. The Empalement, anil Bloffom.
1 . The Empalement, magnified.
3. The Chives, and Pointal.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal.
5. A Chh unified.
6 . The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit; the
Summit magnified.