E R I C A Comptoniana.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA, anthcris aristatis minutis, inclusis, stylo
sub-incluso : fioribus in umbcllis terminalibus :
foliis ternis.
DESCRIPTION
CAULIS fruticosus, pcdalis et ultra: rami et ramuli
filiformes, adscendentes.
FOLIA ternata, cúrvala, subulata, acuta.
FLORES ramos terminant, plerumquc in umbcllis
3—fi : calyxadpressus, pedunculislongis : corolla
meco! ata, orce to-p aten s rubro-purpurea: oris
laciuiis a?qual:btis, patcntibus.
GERMEN coluinnare, tenue, bieoloratum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spcî.
Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus.
2. Folium lente auctum.
3. AntheraietPistillum,autberaunalenteaucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente auclo.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with minutely bearded tips, within; shaft
just within the blossom : flowers grow in terminal
umbels: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM" shrubby,afootormorc high: the small and
large branches arc thread-shaped and ascending.
LEAVES by threes, curved, awl-shaped, and
sharp-pointed.
FLOWERS terminate the branches, mostly in
umbels of 3 to G : empalement pressed to the blossom
: footstalks long: blossom pitcher-shaped,
erect, and spreading, of a red purple colour: segments
of the border equal and spreading.
SEED-BUD pillar-shaped, slender, and two-coloured.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
| Flowers from the month of March till August.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement magnified.
2. A Leaf magnified.
3. Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
THIS fine new species of Erica we have named in honour of the Countess of Northampton, a great
admirer and encourager of botanic science. Our drawing was made from plants in the Hammersmith
collection, raised from Cape seed about the year 1815. Like many other species, we have
found it in bloom in every season of the year; but the most general period of inflorescence for the
whole genus is from the middle of spring till the beginning of autumn.