ERICA Russeliana.
CHARACTER SFECIFICUS.
ERICA, nntheris muticis, inclusis : iloribus tcrminalihus
: pedunculis longîs : foliis quaternis :
caulia fruticosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS sesquipedalis, vhgatus, (lexuosus : ramulis
erecto-patentibus.
FOLIA quaterna, trígona, levitcr curvata, acuta,
lucida.
FLORES in apicibus ramorum, pleruinque terni,
cernui: corolla urceolata, rubra: laciniis oris patentibus,
cordatis. carneis, acutis : pedunculis
rubris, longis, bracteis tribus minoribus : calyx
oblongus, acutus.
GERMEN tiaroeforine, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret per menses actívales, iterumque in mensibus
autumnalibus.
REFEItENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum.
2. Calyx.
3. Stamina a Platillo diducta, anthera una
lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
ñ. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
flowers terminal: peduncles long: leaves by fours:
stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot and a half high, twiggy and flexuose
: branches between erect and spreading.
LEAVES by fours, three-sided, slightly curved,
pointed and shining.
FLOWERS terminate the ends of the branches,
mostly by threes, nodding: blossom pitchershaped,
red : segments of the border spreading,
heart-shaped, flesh-coloured, and pointed : footstalks
red, long, and furnished with three small
iloral leaves : empalemcnt oblong, and pointed.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers in the summer months, and again in
autumn.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified.
2. The Empalement.
3. The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
THIS fine new species of Erica was first raised from Cape seed in the nursery of Mr. Lee at Hammersmith,
in the summer of 1824, and named in compliment to His Grace the Duke of Bedford.
It bears very little if any resemblance to any other species as yet in cultivation with us ; it flowers
early in summer, and again in autumn.