ERICA Hyacinthoicles.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris mu tic is, inclusis: floribus sessilibus,
ercctis, terminalibus, quaternis, confettis,
incarnatis, undulatis: foliis quaternis, linearibus,
glabris.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, spithameus. ereclus, ramosus;
ramuli frequentissimi. erecto-patentes.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, glabra, crassiuscula,
oitida, patentia, petiolis brevissimis.
FLORES sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni, conferti,
terminales, fere pedunculati.
CALYX tetraphyllum, foliolis ad basin late
ovatis, dentatis, superne acuininatis; bracteis
tribus subulatis, canaliculus, adpressis.
COROLLA ventricosa, inearnata, ore arctata;
iaciniis sub-cordatis, undulatis, expansis, maximis.
STAMINA, Filamenta ocio eapillaria ; anthera;
muticre, inclusa?.
P I S T I L L U M . Germen tiara-forme, la?viter sulcatum.
Shlus filiformis. Stigma telragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Augustum
I{ E FERENT I A.
1. Calvx et Corolla.
•> C a l w lente auctus.
.; Stamina diducta, anthera única lente auelíi.
i. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente anclo.
V Germen lente auction
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
flowers sessile, upright, and lerminatiug the ends
of the branches by fours, ' crowded together,
flesh-coloured, and waved; leaves by lours, linear,
and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a span high, upright, and
branching; Ihesmaller branches are numerous,
and between erect and spreading.
LEAVES bv fours, linear, smnolh. Ihukisli.
shining, and spreading, footstalks very short.
FLOWERS sit close in upright bunches, by fours,
on the ends of the branches, scarce anv footstalks.
EMIMI.EMENT four-leaved, the leaflets at the
base are broadly egg-shaped, and toothed, sharppointed
above; there are three floral leaves, awlshaped.
channelled, and pressed to the cup.
BLOSSOM swelled out, and flesh-coloured, narrowed
at the mouth, the segments are nearly
heart-shaped, waved, spreading, and very large.
CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, tips beardless,
and within the blossom.
POIVRVL. Secd-lnid I urban-shaped, and slightly
furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit
four-cornered.
Native o f the Cape o f Good Hope
Flowers from the month of June till August
REFERENCE.
I The F.uipalemenl and BloMOm
'2. The Eiupaleinent magnified,
3. The Chives dclarlud. with one tiji magm
fled
4. The Seed-bud and Foiulaf. summit marmfied.
5. The Seed-bud magnified.