ERICA prsestans.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anthcris muticii, inclnsii: stylo sub-excrto
: floribus urceolitlis, tcrminalibus: foliis cjuaternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAILIS pedalis, ercctus, ramosus: rami et ramuli
graciles.
FOLIA quntcrna, linearía, erecta, obtusa.
FLORES terminales, in umbel lis ouaterais vel
oc ton i s : pediiiiciilis brcvibiis : corollis urccolatis,
albis: laciniis magnis, cxpansis.
GERMEN tiara-forme, sulcatum, ad basin nectario*
inellifcris iustructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona* Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Noveuibrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Stamina et Pistillum.
3 . StantinaetPistillum, antherauna lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
shaft just without: flowers pitchcr-shaped and
terminal : leaves by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, upright, shrubby : large and
small branches slender.
LEAVES by fours, linear, upright, and bluntended.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of
four to eight: footstalks short: blossom pitchershaped,
and white : segments of the border large
and spreading.
SrF.n-inD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape ofGood Hope.
Flowers from June till November.
REFERENCE,
1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives and Pointai.
3. The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
THIS Erica, although a distinct species, does not possess any prominent feature sufficient to distinguish
it from many others; we have therefore retained the specific title of pnestans (by which it is known to
some cultivators), although it is an appellation to which the plant has but little claim compared with
the numerous beautiful species of which this very extensive Genus is composed. It was first raised from
seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven. It flowers from the end of spring till late
in autumn.