E R I C A Bandonia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
E R I C A aiitherismuticis, inclus is : stylo exertp :
floribus terminalibus : pedunculis longissimis :
foliis ternis,
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus : rami et ramuli
erecto-patentes.
FOLIA terna, trígona, aubuJata, r e c t a ; supra
plana subtus carinato.
FLORES terminales in umbellis, quiñis vel
decern, cum pedunculis longissimis r u b r i s : corollis
urceolatis: oris laciniis patentes equalis.
GERMEN tiaroeforme, ad basin nectariis melliferis
instrnctum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Septembrem.
KEFEKENTIA.
I. Calyx.
*2. Stamina ct Pistillum, antherá una lente
auctâ.
3. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom:
shaft without flowers, terminal: footstalks
very long: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, shrubby ; small and large
branches between; erect and spreading.
LEAVES by threes, three-side J , awl-shaped,
and straight; Hat on their upper surface, aud
keeled beneath.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels
of five to ten, with very lung red footstalks:
blossom pitcher-shaped : segments of the border
spreading and equal,
SEED-BUD turban shaped, with honey bearing
nectaries at the base.
Native of t h e Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from J u l y till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalcinent.
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
THIS Erica, named in honour of Lord Bandon, was raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith
Nursery. It is rather a dwarf, shrubby plant, with numerous flowers, the blossoms resemble the
E. Ventricosa; the great length of the flower-stalks, are like the E. Irbyaua, as is also the foliage,
which likewise bear a .similitude to the leaves of t h e E . taxifolia; but altogether it is perfectly distinct
from any one hitherto delineated, and makes a brilliant appearance towards the autumn.