ERICA primuloides.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUSERICA,
antheris muticís, ioclusis : foiiis quiñis,
eonfcrlis : floribns sessilibus, terminal ibus, fastigiatis:
frutex. pygmteiis.
D E S C R I P T I O N
CAULIS frutícosus, spilhamzeus, erectus, dumosus:
ramuli numerosi, adscendenles.
FOLIA quina, subulata, supra plana, subtus
sulcata, glabra, crassíuscula, erecta, confería.
FLORES sessilcs, crecti, fastigiati, quaterni ct
quiui, ter mi íi ales.
CALYX. Perianthium duplex: extenúa tripbyllum,
foliolis subulalis, marginibus pilosis :
interius telraphyllum, foliolis longioribus.
COROLLA ventrieosa, pcllucida, ore arctata,
quod ornatnm est in modem prímula? : laciniis
cordatis, expaiisis, albis, subtus laie rubris.
STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaiia; antherie
naitica*, inclusa?.
PISTILLUM. Germen tiara1 forme, sulcatum,
ad basin nectariferuin. Stylus sub-inclusus.
Stigma sub-excrlum, tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona- Spei.
Floret a mense Maio in Julium.
I t E F E I l E X T IA
1. Folium.
2. Calvx lente auctus
3. Flores varietatum duarum.
•1. Stamina et Pistillum, antherá única lente
auclâ.
5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aueto.
6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER,
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom ;
leaves by fives, crovvded: flowers sessile, fastigiate,
and terminal: a dwarf shrub.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and
bushy : the smaller branches arc numerous, and
ascending.
LEAVES by fives, awl-shaped, flat on their
upper surface, and furrowed on the under side,
smooth, thickish, upright, and crowded.
FLOWERS sessile, upright, fastigiate, and terminating
the branches by fours and fives.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double: the outer one is
three-leaved, with awl-shaped leaflets and hairy
margins: the inner one is four-leaved, with
longer leaflets.
BLOSSOM bellied, pellucid, narrowed at the
mouth, which b ornamented like a cowslip : the
segments o f the border arc heart-shaped, spreading,
and white, of a bright red on the under side.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless,
within the blossom.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed,
with honey-cups at their baas. Shaft just within
the blossom. Summit ju;t without, and fourcornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. Flowers o f two varieties,
4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified,
5. Pointal and Secd-bud, summit magnified.
6. Secd-bud magnified.