ERICA Patersonia, coccínea.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris aristatis inclusis, corollis cylindraceo
clavatis, coccineis, vert ¡cilla lis, foliis subsenis,
selaceis, in petiolos capillares attenuatis.
D E S C I t l P T I O.
C'.LLIS frulicosus, bipcdalis, ramis ramutisquc
ereetis, et sa*pc altcrnis
FOLIA plerumque quínala vel sena, erecta,
setacea, in petiolos capíllares deorsum attenuate.
FLORES in summitate ramorum verticillati,
recti IVdunculi breves, bracteis tribus lanceolatís
iuslructi.
CALYX letraphyllus, foliolis lanceolaliv srrrulatis,
adpressis.
COROLLA oliudracco-clavata, coccínea, ore
arclata, parum curvata, subpolliearis, limbo
reflexo.
STAMINA oeto capillaria; anthera; aristata\
inclusa;.
PlSTILLUM, Germen liarieforme, sulcatum,
ad basin uectariferum Stylui filiformis. Stigma
te trago num.
Habitat ad Capul Borne Spei.
Floret a meuse Aprili in Augustuui
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium.
íí. Calyx et Corolla.
d. Calyx lente auctus
•!. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una
lente ancla
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossoms,
which are cylindrically club-shaped, of a scarlet
colour, and in whorls. Leaves nearly by sixes,
bristle-shaped, and attenuated into capillary
footstalks.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, two feet high, with the
branches and branehlets erect, and often alternate.
LEAVES chiefly in lives or sixes, erect, urislleshaped.
attenuated downwards into capillary
footstalks
FLOWERS grow at the lops of the branches in
whorls straight out. Footstalks short, furnished
with three lancc-shaped floral leaves.
F MI> W.EM EXT four-leaved ; leaflets lance-shaped,
slight]} sawed, and pressed to the blossom.
BlAMON cylindrically club-shaped, scarlet
colour, and narrowed at the mouth, slightly
curved, near an inch long, the border relieved.
CHIVES eight hair-like threads; tips bearded,
and within the blossom
POINTAL Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed,
with hone\-cups at the base. Shaft threadshaped
Summit four-cornered
Native o f the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till August
R E F E R E N C E .
I . A Leaf
The Empalement and Blossom
3. The Kmpalemeiit magnified,
•1. The Chives and Pointal detached, one tip
magnified
j . Seed-hud and Pointal. -iiunuil magnified
8. Seed-bud magnified