EHICA vernix, longiflora.
CHARACTER SPEC Il'ICUS.
ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: Aoribus tcrnis,
tricoloribus, viscosis, urceolatis: foliis tcr-
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis; rainulis ternis,
verticil Latis.
FOLIA ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana, subtus
sulco exarata: petiolis longis.
FLORES plerurnque ternati, ccruui, speciosi:
peduuculi colorati, bractcis tribus coloratis instruct.
Corolla urceolata, glutinosissima, et
lucida, colore saturate aurantio: laciniis oris
erectis, saturate viridibus: calycis foliolis ovatoacutis,
adpressis.
GERMEN tiarasforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
melliferis iustructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona! Spci.
Floret a mense Februarii in Juuium.
REFERENTIA.
I.* Calyx.
2. Stamen auctum.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmatc lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHAF.ACTER.
HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom:
flowers grow by threes, are three-coloured,
clammy, and pitcher-shaped: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: the
branches grow by threes in whorls.
LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on
their upper surface, and furrowed beneath : footstalks
long.
FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, nodding and
showy : footstalks coloured, furnished with three
coloured floral leaves: blossom pitcher-shaped,
very glutinous, and shining, of a deep gold colour:
segments of the border arc upright, and
of a deep green : the leaflets of the cup are
ovate-pointed, and pressed to the blossom.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
with houev-beariug nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of February till June.
HEFERENCE.
1. The Empalcmcnt.
'J. A Chive magnified.
3 . Seed-bud and Fointal, summit magnified.
THIS elegant addition to the extensive family of the Erica? was raised from Cape seed in the Summer
of 1808, by Mr. Knight, Nurseryman, of the King's Road, Chelsea. The difference between this
plant and the E. vernix is easily discernible when they arc in flower: but from the great similitude in
their habit, stalks, and leaves, "it is scarcely possible to distinguish them from each other when out of
bloom.