ERICA Solandroides.
CHARACTER SPECIFICCS.
ERICA, aiithcris aristatis, sub-excrtis : lloribus capitals,
aggrcgatis, cernuis: fbliisconfcrtis,pilosis,
obtusis: ram is longis, simplicibus: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTION
C AU LIS pedalis ct ultra: ramis simplicibus,
longis, crcctis, vel tlextiosis.
FOLIA írregularia, plcruinque quatuor, aggregatu,
pilosa, linearía obtusa, adscendcntia : foliis
ad basin patentibus.
FLORES capitatim terminales, aggregati: corolla
parva, atbeiite, tubo-campanulata : cahre
duplici, cxteriore trifolñito, subulato, piloso, adprcsso:
pedúnculo brevi.
Habitat ad Caput Bona: Spei.
Floret a mense Maio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auetus.
2. Flos.
3. Stamen unum ¡ente aucto.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
b. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATU, with bearded tips, just without the blossom:
flowers grow in crowded beads, nodding :
leaves crowded, hairy, and obtuse: brancheslong
and simple: stem upright.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot or more high : branches simple,
long, upright, or flexuose.
LEAVES irregular, mostly by fours, crowded together,
hairy, linear obtuse,and ascending: leaves
at the base of the plant spreading.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in crowded
beads: blossom small, whitish, tubularly bellshaped
: cup double, the outer one three-leaved
awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom:
footstalk short.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalcmcnt.
2. A Flower.
3. A Chive magnified.
4. Seed-hud and Poiutal, summit magnified,
J 5. Seed-bud magnified.
THIS Erica has been so often baptized, that we are under the necessity of detailing the order of their
succession. First it was called E. Solandra after the late Dr. Solander; secondly, another plant of a
similar appearance, but hearing purple flowers, was named after that gentleman. This plant was
then for some years called the old Solandra; but has recently been named Erica stellala, which we
cannot retain, having already occupied that specific title. No other way remained to avoid confusion,
but again to rename it something like the first, and not unlike the secondly which means we hope
to keep it in its proper sphere—at least to make it recognised for what it has been, by what it now is
called. ,
Our drawing was made from plants at the Hammersmith Nursery.