ERICA undulata.
CHARACTER SPECIFIC US.
ERICA imiticis inclusis: floribus terminahbus :
corollis ampullaceis : foliis ternis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom .
ilowers terminal : blossom Hash-shaped : leaves
by threes.
DESCRIFTIO.
CAHLIS fruticosiis, pedalis : fruticusus rami
virgnti flexuosi.
FOLIA teína, linearía, brevia adseendentia verticilüs,
i r regí dar iter confertis.
FLORES ramulos terminan! plerumipie terni :
corolla UDcialis ampul lacea, eostata, undulata.
rubra: ori.s laeiniis reeurvalis.
GERMEN tiara-forme, sulcatum, ad basin neetariifi
melliteris instrueUiui.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a men se Mali in Julium.
REVERENT I A.
Î. Folium.
2. Calyx.
5. Stamen, antherâ lente aiietâ.
•1. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a foot high : shrubby branches,
twiggy and flexuose.
LEAVES by threes, linear, short and ascending,
in irregular crowded whorles.
FLOWERS terminate the branches mostly by
threes: blossom an inch long, flask-shaped, ribbed,
waved, and red : segments of the border
rolled back.
SEED-HUD turban-shaped and furrowed, and
famished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
I. A Leaf.
•1. The Empalcment.
'•i. A Chive, lip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
OUR drawinsr of this singular species of Erica was made from a plant at the Nursery of Messrs, Rollinson,
¡'1 the summer of 182S, said to he raised from seed of the E. translucens. its contort
Ilowers suggested a specific title, by which, in bloom, it could not fall to be recognised ; the undulations
continue the same from the early bud state, to the decay of the full-grown flower. The onlj
Heath we ever met with of a similar and rather more conlort character, was E. rugosa, (figured m
Vol. 3.) which never ripened seed nor would propagate by cuttings, thus indicating an abortive novelty
on which Nature reluctantly conferred the power of vegetation.