E R I C A Andromedoeflora, alba.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
EIÍICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis : stylo sub-incluso
: floribus axil lar i bus, declinatis : folüs tcr-
•atis,
EESCRIPTIO.
CACLIS humilis, fnilicosus, robustus, pcdalis :
rami numcrosi, conferli.
FOLIA tcrnata, subuiata, incurvata, robusta :
petiolis longis adprcssis.
FLOHES axillares, sub-term i nal es, declinad, con-
I'uli: calyx n i i i g i m s , lato-ovatus, albus: corolla
ovala, crassa, alba : oris laciniis erectis.
GERMEN tiara?forme, villosum, ad basin ncctar
i i s racllifcris iiistrtictLim.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a mense Martii ad Junium.
REFERENTEN
1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. Autheraet Pistill um, antbera una lente ancla.
i. Germen et Pistilliim, stigmate lente aucto.
5. Germen lente atictum.
.SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom:
shaft jList within: flowers axillary, and bending
down : leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM low, shrubby, and strong, a fool high :
branches numerous, and crowded together.
LEAVES by threes, awl-shaped, incurved, and
stout, with long footstalks pressed to the branches.
FLOWERS grow from the axilla1 of the leaves,
nearly terminal, hanging down, and crowded together:
cinpalenient large, broadly egg-shaped,
and white: blossom ovate, thick, and white: segments
of the border straight.
SEED-BCD turban-shaped, villose, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of llie Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Blossom.
3. The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
THIS white-flowered variety of the E. AndromcdiTJlora, from its hardy, dwarf and robust character,
might almost be considered as a distinct species, did not the appearance and shape of the blossoms
bear out the specific title too well to admit of any alteration. The flowers are slow in growth, anil
of a tliickish and rather tough consistence. It is a hardy green-house shrub, and blossoms mostly
during the spring season.