E R I C A crassifolia.
CHAP, AC TER SPECIFICU8.
ERICA antheris muticis inclusis : floribus terminalibus
: corolla campanulata : folia terna :
c u l i * ÉVll ticos US.
DESCR1PTIO.
CAULIS humilis, fruticosus : rami et ramuli
flexuosi.
FOLIA terna, oblonga, fere rotunda, brevia,
carnosa, glauca, patentia ct adscendentia.
FLORES ramulos subterminantes, plerumque
terni : corolla campanulata, rosea, oris laciniis
coidatis, reüexis.
GERMEN tiaroeforme, sulcatum, ad basin neetarns
melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonoe Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.
KEFERENTIA.
1. Folium, lente auclum.
2. Calyx, lente auctus.
3. Stamina et Pistilluni.
4. Stamen unum, lente auctum.
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom :
flowers terminal: blossom bell-shaped : leaves by
threes : stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM low, shrubby, the large and smaller
branches flexuose.
LEAVES by threes, oblong, roundish, short,
fleshy, glaucous, spreading, and ascending.
FLOWERS nearly terminate thesmaller branches,
mostly by threes : blossom bcll-shapcd, rose-coloured
: segments of the border heart-shaped,
and reflexed.
SEED-ELD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till July.
REFERENCE.
t . A leaf, magnified.
2. Empalement, magnified.
3. Chives and Pointai.
4. One Chive, magnified.
5. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
THE Erica crassifolia is a perfectly new species, raised last summer from Cape seed, at Mes
Rollinson's, Lower Tooting. It is a low bushy shrub, possessing a smooth handsome foliage, <
thick and fleshy appearance; by no means common to the genus, and therefore will not he very
ficult to distinguish either in, or out of bloom. Flowers during the months of May and J une.