ERICA perspicua.
CHA It ACT F.K SPEC I F IC U 5 .
ERICA, anthcris muticis, inclusis: floribus r y -
lindricis, v ulosis, ramulos í r n i i i n a n l i b i i s : foliis
tern is, linearibus.
DF.SC'ItlPTIO.
CAVLIS frnlicosns. sesquipedal is, crcctus, ct
pa l e n s : raimdi muncrosi.
FOLIA terna, linearía, subtus sulcata: pctiolis
long is, adpressis.
FLORES terui, ramulos terminantes : peduuculi
colorati, brarteis duabus parvis adpressis: corolla
cyliiidraeea et pilosa, ad basin p u r p u r e a , et superite
a l b a ; laciniis oval is, paten ti b u s : calvéis
ibliolis lanccolatis, adpressis.
GcUn tiara-forinc, sulcatum, ad basin ncctariis
melliferis instruclum.
H a b i t a t ad C a p u t Bona- Spei.
F l o r e t a mense A p r i l i i n N o v e i u b r c m .
n r FF.II E X T I A .
1. Calyx.
t. Stamina et P i s l i l l u m .
3. G e n u e n et PMillmu, stigmalc lente auclo.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, w i t h beardless tips w i t h i n the blossom :
flowers cylindrical, hairy, and terminating the
small branches: leaves b y threes, linear.
D E S C R I P T I O N 1 .
STEM shrubby, a loot and a h a l f h i g h , upright,
and spreading : smaller branches numerous.
LEATES b y threes, linear, furrowed beneath.,
w i t h longish footstalks pressed to the branches.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches b y
threes; peduncles coloured, with two small floral
leaves pressed to t h em : blossom cylindrical and
h a i r y , purple at the base, and w h i t e at the upper
p a r t : segments o f the border ovate and spreadi
n g : leaves o f the empalement lance-shaped, and
pressed to the blossom.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
w i t h honey-bearing nectaries at the base.
N a t i v e o f the C a p e o f G o o d H o p e .
F l o w e r s f r om the m o n t h o f A p r i l till N o v e m b e r ,
I t r.FEREXCE,
1. T h e E m p a l e m e n t .
2. Chives and P o i n t a l .
3. Seed-bud and P o i n t a l , summit magnified.
T i n s elegant plant resembles the E . L i n n a a , and is b y most cultivators as well k n o w n b y the appellation
o f the old L i n n e o i d c s as b y the specific title o f perspicua.
I t flowers early in spring, and continues in successive b l o om till late in a u t u m n . It was first raised
from ( a p e seed in the R o y a l gardens at K e w , and flowered in the nursery o f M r . W i l l i a m s at T u r n -
bam G r e e n about the year 1 7 9 6 .
O u r figure was taken from a l u x u r i a n t specimen in the summer o f 1 8 0 7