ERICA splendens.
CHARACTER SPECIFICCS.
ERICA, anlheris aristatis, inclusis: stylo sub-cxcrto:
fioribus cylindraceis, tomentosis: foliis quatcrnis.
DEScnil'TIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, ereclus, pcdalis et ultra :
rami n i l f f O t i . lomcntosi.
Koma qualerna, 11in.:ii:t oblusa, tomentosa,
adscendentia.
FLOHES plerumque qiiatcrni, patentes, terminales:
corn Iiis uncial ibus, ovato-cyliudraccis, \illosis,
coccineis: oris laciniis crecto-patulis.
GERMEN tiara'forme, villosum, ad basin ncetariis
mclliferis instrncluni.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mensc Maii ad Augustum.
R E F E R E X T I A .
1. Calyx.
2. Anlbcra una lente aueta.
3. Germen et PisLillum, stigmate lente aueto.
4. Germen lente auctuin.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom ;
shaftjnstwithout: flowers cylindrical and downy:
leaves by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high :
branches numerous and downy.
LEWES by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and
ascending.
FLOWERS grow mostly by fours, spreading, and
terminal : blossoms an inch long, ovalely cylindrical,
villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of
the border upright and spreading,
SrFn-ci D turban-shaped, hairy, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till August.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Empalemeut,
2. A Cliivc magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit? magnified.
4. Seed-bud magnified.
WE bave adopted the specific title by which this Erica is well known in the gardens, although we
should have preferred that of tomtntota, so decidedly descriptive of the downy character that pervades
the whole plant, and which renders it difficult to preserve from the damps, which love to lod-e on soft
and downy pillows, too often to the destruction of their resting-place. Our figure represents an entire
plant from the Nursery of Messrs, Colville, in the year 1S1C.