ERICA Sainsburyaiia.
CHARACTER SPECIFIUÜS.
ERÏCA, antheris inclusis, aristatis: llor-ibus umbellatis,
tenninalibus, in pedunculis longissimis:
folds ternis, linearibus, longis.
DESCRIPTIO.
GAULIS frutieosus, sesquipedalis: rami* longis,
simplicibus, adsccndentibus.
FOLIA tenia, linearía, longa, sublus sulcata:
pctiolis longis, adpressis.
FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis: corolla
mëtulssformiSj saturate carnea: pedunculi longisiimij
filiformes, rubri, bracteis tribus distantibus
lanccolatis iustructi: calycis foliolis hinccolalis,
coloratis, adpressis.
(. tin •: i • tiara'forme, lougum, sulcatum, ad basin
nectariis melliferis instructum,
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spci.
Floret a menee Junii in Septcmbrem.
REFF. RE S T I A.
1. Calyx.
8. Stamina et Pistillum, aulbera una lente
auctá,
3, Germen et Pistillum, stigmalc lente aueto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER .
HEATH, with tips within the blossom, bearded:
flowers terminate the branches in umbels upon
very long footstalks: leaves by threes, linear, and
long.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: with
long, simple, ascending branches.
LEAVES by threes, linear, long, and furrowed
beneath : footstalks long, and pressed to the stem.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels:
blossom skittle-shaped and of a deep flesh colour:
footstalks very long, thread-shaped, and red, with
three lance-shaped floral leaves set at a distance
on them: leaflets of the cup lance-shaped, coloured,
and pressed to the blossom.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, long, furrowed, and
furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the
base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-hud and Pointal, summit magnified.
THIS fine species of Erica is one of the recent novelties raised from Cape seed; and being very
distinct from any hitherto delineated, we have named it in honour of Miss Salisbury, a great admirer
of this beautiful tribe of plants. Our figure was drawn at the nursery of Mr. Rollinson of Lower
Tooting, in September 1810.