ERICA ruber-calyx.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis : flores ramuloa
terminant : foliis quatcrnis: caule fruticoso.
ÜESCRIPT10.
GAULIS pedalis : ramis et ramulis numcrosis,
flexuosis, filiformibus.
FOLIA quatcrna, linearía, recta, obtusa, erecto
patentîa.
FLORES ramulos terminant, plerumque quaterni,
patentes : calyce et pcdunculis rubris :
corolla metul¿efbrmi, pellucida, imprimis alba, denique
rosea : oris laciniis erectis.
GERMEN liara?forme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
mclliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mensc Januarii ad Maium.
R1ÍFERENT1A.
1. Calyx.
8. Authera: el Pistillum.
3. Stamen uiiuni, antbera lenle aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aiieto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom
: flowers terminate the smaller branches :
leaves by fours : stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high : the large and smaller
branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped.
LEAVES by fours, linear, straight, obtuse, and
between erect and spreading.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches,
mostly by fours, spreading : empalement and
footstalks red : blossom skittle-shaped, transparent,
white at first, then dying off a rose colour :
segments of the border upright.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of January till May.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives and Pointal.
3. A Chive, one lip magnified.
\ . Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
This species of Erica in the mutability of its llowers resembles the blossoms of the E. colorans.
It was first raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in the summer of 1825, under the
appellation of rubcr-cafr/x : a specific title of one word would have been preferable, bul it is very
characteristic of the plant when in bloom, which is a recommendation not often to be met with where
the best specific titles are already occupied. It is a handsome dwarf shrub, with abundance of successive
bloom.