ERICA sulphurea.
CHARACTER SPECIFtCUS.
ERICA, anthcris mu tic is, sub-Íncliisis : stylo cxerto
: floribus cylindraceis, sessilibus : foliis quaternís.
DESCRIPTIO.
CA VUS pedalis et ultra, crectus : rami sparsi,
ïirgati, fréquentes, villosi.
FOLIA quaternn, tenu i a, obtusa, villosa, erecta.
FLORES sub-solitarii, sessiles, ramulos terminantes
: corollis cylindraceo-clavatis, curvatis, villosis
: limbo campauuluto, revoluto.
GERMEN t¡ara?forme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
mclliferis iuslructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Junii ad Octobrcm.
REFERENT! A.
I. Folium lente auctum.
c2. Calyx lente auctus.
3, Stamina et Pistillum, an therâ unâ lente auctâ.
4. Germen el Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom
: shaft without: flowers are cylindrical and
sessile: leaves by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot or more high, upright: branches
scattered, twiggy, numerous, and hairy.
LEAVES by fours, thin, blunt, villose, and upt
i g h t .
FLOWERS grow singly, sessile, and terminate
the smaller branches: blossoms cylindrieally clubshaped,
curved, and hairy : the segments of the
border are bell-shaped, and rolled back.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified.
2. The Empalement magnified.
3. Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
THIS lively shrub was first raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1814. In its general
character it very much resembles the E. tubiflora and the E. sordida, distinct from each, and yet resembling
both. It is a brilliant addition to the gay and extensive genus Erica.