ERICA Templeá.
CHARACTER S 1>E C IFIC U S.
ERICA, muticis inclusis: lloribus terminalibus :
cemiuis, follis lanccolatis, hirsute-, : caulis fruticosa.
DH6CBIPTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, ramis et ramulis,
eunplioibuSj llexuosis.
FOLIA sena, lanceolata, cúrvala, paten tia, supra
plana, subtus sulco exarata: marginibus hirsutis.
FLORES in ultimis ramis terminales, in umbellis,
cernuis : corolla sub cyiindracea, ad basin infinta,
subalbia, supra Ícete rubra et striatis, ore
arcuata pilosa, laciniis revolutis.
GERMEN tiaiu'forme, sulcatum, pilo»urn, ad
basin nectariis nielliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Boiue Spei.
Floret a mense Septembri in Decembrem.
REFEKENTIA,
1. Felium.
2. Ídem infra lente aucta.
3. Stamen et pistitlum, antherá una lente auelii.
4. Germen et pistilluui stiguiala lente aucta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless lips, within the blossom .
flowers terminal and nodding : leaves lanceshaped
and hirsute : stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot high ; the large and
smaller branches simple and rlexuose.
LEAVES by sixes, lance shaped,, curved and
spreading, flat on their upper surface and deeply
furrowed beneath : margins harshly haired.
FLOWERS terminate the ends of the brandies
in umbels, nodding : blossom nearly cylindrical,
swelled at the base, whitish, of a bright red colour
above, and striped : narrowed at the mouth,
and hairy M^mi'nts replied back.
! SEED-RCD turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy,, and
furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
i Flowers from the month of September till December.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf.
2. The same shewn from beneath, magnified.
3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
Tins Erica was first raised from seed at the I lammersmith Nursery, about the year 1820, and named
by the kite Mr. Lee after Lady Temple : it is a perfectly new and distinct species ; the Erica's celinthoides
and ohbala arc the only heaths to which it bears any resemblance. It is a handsome
shrub low in stature, bat easily distinguished from mo>t of (Jus fine tribe by its glaucous, hairy
foliage,