ERICA viridiflora.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris minute bicornutis, subexsertis:
floribtis sessílibus,nutantibus: foliisternatis: caule
ramoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS luimilis. crectus, fruticosus: ramulis
plerumquc tern is.
FOLIA terna, glabra, sub-trigona, cúrvala,
acuta.
FLORES terní in apicíbus ramulorum, dependentes:
pedunculi nulli: perianthium duplex, exterior!
triphyllo : corolla viridis, viscosa, metula:-
flora: laciniis limbi ereclis.
GERMEN tiarasforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Junii usque ad Augustmn.
REFEREN'TI A.
1. Calyx.
2. Stamina et pistilluni.
3. Stamen unum, antbera lente aucta.
4. Germen et pistiilum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with tips minutely two-horned just without
the blossom: flowers sessile, and hanging
down : leaves by threes: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM low, upright, aud shrubby: smaller
branches mostly by threes.
LEAVES by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided,
curved, and pointed.
FLOWERS grow by threes at the ends of the
smaller branches, hanging down: footstalks none:
cup double, the outer one three-leaved: blossom
green, clammy, and skittle-shaped : segments of
the border upright.
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 June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. Chives and Pointai.
3. A Chive, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
THIS little green-flowered shrub at first sight bears a strong resemblance to the E. clavata, but on
close inspection will be found to differ in almost every particular, except colour, from that species.
We first observed the E. viridiflora, at the Hammersmith nursery, in 1820, at which period there was
only one plant of it that had been raised from Cape seed : at present there are many other plants of
it, that will, upon comparison, be found to differ from the E. clavata, not only in the exterior, but
also in the interior of the blossom, as the anthers in thisspecies are minutely bicomute, and m the
other beardless.