ERICA Sébana, nana.
CHARACTER SPECIFIC US.
ERICA, aiitheris muticis, exsorlis, longissimis;
corolla clávala, incurvata, saturate aurantia ; floribus
temiinalibus; calyx duplex ; folíis teniis,
confertís; caulis brevis, fruticosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS erectus, robustus, humilis, ramosissimus;
ramuli verlieillati.
FOLIA tema, linearía, areuata, confería, subtrigona,
glabra, ápice acuta.
FLORES duo in ápice ramnlorum, dependentes;
pedunculi breves, nudi.
CALYX. Períanthium duplex; exterius triphyllum
; foliolis ovalis, membra nacéis, ímbricatis,
adpressis; interius telraphyllum, foliolis
majoribus.
COROLLA clávala, incurvata, rugosa, saturate
aurantia ; lacíniis límbi erectis, inciirvatis.
STAMINA. Filamenta ocio linearía, plana;
anthera?. náutica-, exserta?, longissima', in filamenta
atteuuata'.
PISTII.LLM. Germen tiara'fonnc Stylus filiformis,
s tamul i bus paulo longior. Stigma tetragon
uní.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a incuse Julii in Januarium.
REFEREN'TIA.
1. Calyx Unte auctus.
g. Corolla.
3. Stamina el. Pislillum.
4. Stamina a Pistillo didueta
5. Germen et Pislillum, stigmate lente aucto.
ti. Germen lente auctuui.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips without the blossom,
and very long; blossom club-shaped, turned
inwards, and o f a deep orange colour; flowers
terminate the branches; cup double; leaves by
threes, and crowded; stem short and shrubby.
DESCRIPTION'.
STEM upright, sturdy, low, and very branching
; the smaller branches are whorled.
LEAVES by threes, linear, bowed, and crowded
together; nearly three-sided, smooth, and sharppointed.
FLOWERS grow by twos at the ends of the
small branches, hanging down ; the footstalks
are short and naked.
EMPALEMENT. Cup double; the outer one is
three-leaved ; the leaflets egg-shaped and skinny,
tiled, and pressed to the c u p ; the inner one is
four-leaved, with larger leaflets.
BLOSSOM club-shaped, turned inwards, wrinkled,
and o f a deep orange colour ; the segments
of the border are upright, and turned inwards.
CHIVES. Eight linear, flat, threads; tips beardless,
without the blossom, very long, and tapered
into threads.
POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft
thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives.
Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape o f Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till January.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified.
2. A Blossom.
3. The Chives and Poinial.
4. The Chives detached from the Pointal.
5. The Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
6. Seed-bud magnified.