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E R I C A aristata, minor.
CHARACTER, S F E C I F I C U S.
ERICA, anthcris routicis, inclusis : floribus quatcrnis,
ampullaceis, viscosis: foliis ternis, confer
ti 3.
D E S C H I P T I O .
GAULIS erectus, fruticosns, pedal ¡ s et ultra:
ramulis plcrumque teruis, vcrticillatis.
FOLIA témala, sub-trígona, supra piona; subtus
sulco-exarata ; margine pilis longis obsita.
FLORES quatcrni, patentes: enrolla b3si inflata,
ápice altenuata, ima parle rubra, in media
alba, sumiua saturate purpurea, glutinosissima et
lucida : lac i ni is oris pateiitibus : calycis foliolis
lauceolatis, barbatis, adpressis.
GERMEN columnar forme, sulcatum, ad basin
neetariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Jimii in Octobrem.
R F F E E E N T I A .
1. Stamina et Pistiilum, anthera una lente
auctá.
2. Germen et Pistiilum, stigmate lente aucto.
3. Flos varíelas rubra.
4. Flos varíelas subalbida.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER,
HEATH, with beardless lips within the blossom :
flowers grow by fours, are flask-shaped, and viscous
: leaves by threes, crowded together.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM upright, shrubbv, a foot or more high :
branches grow mostly by threes, in whorls.
LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, flal on
their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath
; the margins are beset wilh long hairs.
FLOWERS grow by fours, spreading: the blossom
is swelled at the base, and tapers to the
point, red on the lower part, white in the
centre, and of a deep purple towards the end,
very glutinous, and shining : the segments of the
border are spreading : the leaflets of the cup are
lance-shaped, bearded, and pressed to the blossom.
SEED-BUD pillar-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Chives and Poiutal, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-hud and Pointal, summit magnified.
3. Flower of a red variety.
4. Flower of a pale variety.
AMONGST cultivators, this plant bears the specific titles of aristata minor, and tricolor ; neither of them
very appropriate, as it docs not possess three distinct colours; nor can it with propriety be considered
as a variety of the E. aristata: but as it is well known by that appellation, we have retained it. There
arc two variations of it at present in cultivation with us ; a flower of each is given, with the dissections.
The pale-flowered variety is from the conservatory of the Marquis of Blandford, and we have
not as yet seen it in any other collection. It appears to be a plant of easy culture, and was raised
from Cape seed about the year 1806.