ERICA pel tata.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA niifheris muticis, subexscrtis : stylo exscrto,
filiform. : stigmate pcltato, magno : floribus
axillaribus, tcrminalibus : foliis ternis: ratais
nnmerosis : caulc erecto.
DESCBiPTlo.
Cii'i.i' subpcdalis: rami et ramuli numerosi,
filiformes, adsccndentes.
FOLIA tenia, erccto-patcntia, linearia, recta,
obtusa.
FLORES axillares, terminales: pednneuli longi,
braeteis calyci adpressis : corolla campanulata,
parva, caruea, subeernua: stylo filiformi, longo :
stigmate peltato, magno.
Habitat ad Caput Bona- Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.
REPIRENTIA.
I. Calyx lente auctui.
'2. Corolla lente aucta.
3 . Stamina lente aucta.
4. Germen el Pistillum, stigmatc lente aucto.
5. Germen lente aucliim.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, just without the
blossom: shaft without, thread-shaped: summit
shield-shaped and large: flowers grow from the
axilla; of the leaves, and terminate the branches:
leaves by threes: branches numerous: stem up.
right.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM nearly a foot high : the large and small
; branches are numerous, thread-shaped, and ascend
i ng.
LEAVES by threes, between erect and spreading,
linear, straight and obtuse.
FLOWERS grow from the axilla? of the leaves,
and terminate the branches: peduncles long, with
floral leaves pressed to the cup: blossom bellshaped,
small, flesh-coloured, and nearly nodding
: shaft thread-shaped and long: summit
shield-shaped and large.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalement magnified.
2. A Blossom magnified.
3. The Chives magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified,
n. Seed-bud magnified.
IN the (ICIIII- Krira it is sometimes vcrj difficult to find an appropriate or unoccupied specific title.
This little shrub furnishes no less than four to choose from : tin* choice lias already given the additional
title of cxserla to that of peltata, from the trivial circumstance of the pointals protruding a
little more in some plants than others: a mere casualty, probably depending on its strength or culture.
The flowers are so very minute, that the pointals are the most conspicuous, resembling shields
in miniature. The anthers are large, compared to the small size of the flowers, and so fertile, that
when in full bloom if shaken, they emit such a quantity of pollen as would afford the specific titles
of fertilis or farinosa.
Our drawing was- made at Mr, Lee'l last summer (1823); but we have seen it in bhiom as long
ago as 1806'.