ERICA radiata discolor.
CHARACTER. SPECIFICUS.
ERICA anthem mulicis, inclusiv : floribus verticillatis
: caule fruticoso, erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS bipedalis, erectus, ramosus : ramis
subsi mplicibus.
FOLIA plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia,
undulata, acuminata.
FLORES Ín ramulorum sub apicibus verticillati,
horizontaliter sili: corolla subcylindracea :
oris laciniis recurvatis, cordatis, albis.
GERMEN tiara;forme, sulcatum, villosum, ad
basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
REFERENTIA.
1. Varietas Erica; metulasflora discolor.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamen et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lentc aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATU with beardless tips within the blossom :
flowers grow in whorls: stem shrubby and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM two feet high, upright and branching :
the branches nearly simple.
LEAVES mostly by foul's, linear, spreading,
undulate, and pointed.
FLOWERS grow in whorls near the ends of
the branches, standing horizontally; blossom
nearly cylinder-shaped: segments of the border
recurved, heart-shaped, and white.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose,
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing
nectaries,
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
1. Discoloured variety of Erica Metulasflora.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamen and Pointal, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
THE Ericas radiata and metulcefiora, figured in the 1st and 3rd volume of this work, are scions
from a hybrid production of an Erica known by the specific title of spuria. Our figure represents
an elegant variety of the E. radiata, raised from Cape seed at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson
in the autumn of 182G.
Among the dissections we have taken the opportunity of giving a branch with flowers of a
similar variation of E. metuhcilora, to avoid the necessity for a separate figure.