ERICA Coventrya.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quaternis.
confertis: floribus sessilibus, Êuscieulatis
terniinalibus : frutex pygrnoeus.
DESCRIPTIO.
GAULISbumilis, fruticosus: ramuli numerosi
ailapicc t i n ii- conferti.
FOLIA pleriiinque, quartcrna, linearía, supra
plana subtus sulcata.
FLORES sessiles, fascisculatis terminales: corollis
ventricosus, rubris, lacinis cordatis, expausio,
albis, subtns la?te rubris.
GERMEN tianefbrme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
meliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona* Spei.
Floret a mense Jolii in Septembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. Stamina et Pistullum.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aticto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
I I BATH with beardless tips within the Mossoin
: leaves by fours, crowded : flowers sessile,
terminating the branches in hunches : a dwarf
shrub.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM low, shrubby: smaller branches are numerous
and crowded together at the end of the
larger branches.
LEAVES mostly grow by fours, linear, flat
on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
FLOWERS sessile, in terminal bunches: biossoui"
bellied and red, the segments of the border
are heart-shaped, spreading, and white; of a:
bright red on the under side.
SEED-IIUD turban-shaped, furrowed, with
honey bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from J u l y till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The Eiupalemcnt.
2. A Blossom.
3. The Chives and Pointal.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified
This Erica resembles the E. primuloides in its foliage, also in the shape and colour of the h
som, but differs greatly in the manner of its growth, as the flowers, in this plant, terminate
branches in complex umbells, more like the genus Daphne than Erica.
I t is one of those fine seminal varieties raised from Cape seed at t h e Hammersmith Nursery,
received its specific title in honour of the Earl of Coventry.