E R I C A transparens.
CHARACTER SPECIFICU5.
ERICA, anthcris muticis, inclusis : fioribus terminafibus:
foliis ternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS bipcdalis, frutieosus, erectus.
FOLIA tcrnata, linearía, nítida, erecto-patentia:
fuliis majoribus flexuosis.
FLORES plerumque terni, cernui, ad ramorum
extrcmitatcs: calyx duplex, crassus, adpressus:
calyx exterior trifoliatus: corolla tubulosa, purpurea:
oris laciniis viridi-albicantibus.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a incnse Julii ad Aprilem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. A nthcra'ct Pistil! um, antberaunalenteaucla.
3 . Germen et Pistilluro, stigmate lente ¡meto.
4. Gcrincu lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
flowers terminal: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM two feet high, shrubby, and erect.
LEAVES by threes, linear, shining, erect, and
spreading: the larger leaves are flexuose.
FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, drooping, at
the ends of the branches: empalement double,
thick, and pressed to the blossom : the exterior
calyx three-leaved: blossom tubular and purple :
the segments of the border of a greenish white.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till April.
REFERENCE.
1 . The Empalement.
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud magnified.
THE Erica irtmsparens may be considered as one of the most beautiful of this fine tribe of plants. Its
flowers equal in lustre the finest silk: their succession is so abundant, that we have found it in luxuriant
bloom for-six months. Our drawing was finished in the month of February 1820; and although
the cold season checked the rich colour of its blossoms, yet was it (even so restrained) the most elegant
ornament of the conservatory. It resembles the E. disrohr in many particulars, but is specifically
distinct in having the anthers midicic instead of mistnla: