E R I C A colorans.
CHARACTER srECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticis, ÍDCIUBÍB: floribus spicatisj
confcrüs; foliis quaternis.
UESCR1PTIO.
CAL'LIS frulicosus, crectus, pedal is et ultra: raniuli
numerosi, breves, tomentosi.
FOLIA quaterna, linearía, tomentosa, obtusa.
FLORES ferc ramos terminant, racemum longum
densum formantes: corolla tubulato-campanulata,
diaphana, imprimis allia, denique saturate
rosacea.
GERMEN tiara:fortnc. sulcatum, ad basin neclariis
melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spci.
Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Anthers? et Pistill um, anthera unalenleaiicta.
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
flowers grow in crowded spikes: leaves by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, upright,a foot or more high: the
smaller branches arc numerous, short, and downv-
LEAVES by fours, linear, downy, and bluntended.
FLOWERS nearly terminate the branches, making
a long close bunch: blossom tubularly hellshaped,
transparent, white at first, and then dying
oft'of a deep rose colour.
SEED-r<ri> turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till August.
REFERENTCE.
1. Calyx.
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
THIS Erica may be considered as an elegant but distinct variety of the E . Linncea. It is well
known by the specific title of colorans, in reference to the rich red colour the flowers acquire as
the blossoms decay, which gives a very singular motley appearance to the plant. It continues a long
time in successive bloom ; and requires a dry airy situation in the green-house, to protect its small
crowded downy foliage from the atmospheric damps too prevalent in this climate.