ERICA triflora.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris cristatis, incluais: foliis ternis ;
floribus ternis, globosis, albis : calyce magno.
D E S C R I F T I O .
CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus, ramosus : rainulis
numerosis, plerunique ternis.
FOLIA terna, sub-trigona, acuta, lucida, patentia
; pctiolis longis, adprcssis.
FLORES ramulos terminantes, terni, eernui :
pcdunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instruetis, ca-
Ivei adpressis : folióla lato-ovata, earinata, alba,
magna, corollce alba-, globosa-, adpressa.
GERMEN tiarpeforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
melliferis inslructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Rannis pana; varictatis.
'2. Stamina et Pístillum, antlicrâ unâ lente
auctâ.
3. Germen et Pístillum, stigmate lente aucto.
S P E C I F I C CHARACTER.
HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom :
leaves by threes: flowers grow by threes, globular,
and white : empalement large.
D E S C R I P T I O N .
STEM a foot and a half high, upright and
branching, with numerous small branches, mostly
by threes.
LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, pointed,
shining, and spreading: footstalks long, and
pressed to the stem.
FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches by
threes, nodding : footstalks short, furnished with
three floral leaves, and pressed to the cup: leaves
of the empalcment broadly ovate, keeled, white,
large, and pressed to the blossom, which is
white and globular.
SEED-BCD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till July.
.REFERENCE.
1. A Branch of a small variety.
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
ALTHOUGH this Erica is well known to cultivators by the specific title of triflora, it could not he
discriminated by that name, as more than half the genus at present known bear flowers by threes, and
which ils nomenclátor was not aware of, being amongst the earliest importations from the Cape. Our
fio-ure was drawn from a plant in the collection of Messrs. Colville. in the summer of 180S.