ERICA tenuiflora carnea.
CHARACTER SPECIF1CUS.
ERICA anthcris muticis, inclusis : flores ramos
terminant: fbliis quaternis : caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
CALXIS pednlis et ultra, fruticosus, flexuosus,
filiformis, virgalus.
FOLIA quaterna, leviter tomentosa, linearía,
hrevia, acuta, supra plana, subtus sulcata.
FLORES ramos termiuant, terni vel qualerni,
plerumque adscendentes : corolla tuba:formi, tenuissima,
incarnata : laciniis oris a?qualibus, cordatis,
ncutis, patcntibus.
Gmn liancforme, sulcatum, ad basin neclariis
inclliferis instructum.
Habitat nd Capul nona; Spei.
Floret per menses estivales.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Antheroe et Pistillum.
3. Stamen unum, autbera lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom :
flowers terminate the branches : leaves by fours :
stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot or more high, flexuose, threadshaped,
and twiggy.
LEAVES by fours, slightly downy, linear, short,
pointed, Hal on their upper surface, and furrowed
beneath.
FLOWERS terminate the branches by threes
and fours, mostly ascending: blossom trumpetshaped,
very slender, and flesh-coloured ; segments
of the border equal, heart-shaped, pointed,
and spreading.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the summer months.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalemcnt.
2. The Chives and Poinlal.
3. A Chive, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
Our figure represents a fine new species of Erica communicated from the extensive collection of
His Grace the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, where it was raised from seed in the summer of
1S24. In its foliage it very much resembles the E. lenuijlura alba, figured in our third volume : the
principal if not the only distinction is, when in bloom, the delicacy of its flowers, whose fine blushcolour
gives it a decided preference over the while variety. It is considered as a variety through the
medium of the E. spuria, a mule to which the genus is indebted for many fine variations.