ERICA quadrangularis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anfheris muticis, ínclusis: floribus tcrminalibus
: corollis quadra ngularib us : caule erecto.
DE5CRIPTIO.
CAULIS sesquipedal is, fruticosus, crcclus, ramosus
: ramis et ramulis longis.
FOMA numerosa, sparsa, ensiformia, cúrvala,
adsccndentia ct patentia, supra plana, sublus sulcata.
FLORES ramulos terminant, terni, quatcnii vel
quiñi, crecti vel patentes: corolla bicolorata, supra
alba, ¡afraincarnats, tubulosa, quadrata, quatuor
valvis vel suturis: oris laciniis revolutis.
Habitat ad Capul fióme Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili ¡n Jonium.
REFER EN TI A.
1. CaljA.
2. Corolla espansa.
3 . Antbera una.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom:
flowers terminal: blossoms quadrangular: stem
erect.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot and a half high, shrubby, upright,
and branching: the large and small branches
long.
LEAVES numerous, scattered, Bword-shnped,
curved, ascending and spreading, flat on their
upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches in
threes, fours, or fives, erect or spreading: blossom
two-coloured, white above and flesh-coloured beneath,
tubular, squared, with four valves or seams:
segments of ihe border rolled back.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Blossom spread out.
3. A Chive.
4. Seed-hud and Pointal, summit magnified.
This new species of Erica W at present hut little known : the only collections in which we have
seen it are Mr Rollinson's at Tooting, and Mr. Lee's Nursery, where our drawing was taken in 1819.
It was first raised from Cape seed in 1818, but is still a scarce plant, and not easily increased by cuttings.
It is very handsome when in flower: its blossoms resemble wax, with fc.ur=eam< or valves,
,cry unlike an;'other aperies we are at present acquainted with.