ERICA Ëchiflora, purpurea.
C H A R A C T E R Sl'ECIFICUS.
ERICA, antheris muticís i aclasis : floribus tcrm
¡nal ¡bus, tubulosis ct CMtatis : iolii.s linearis
confertis : caule fruticoso.
DESC RI PTIO.
CAULIS fruticosus, sesquipedal is : ramis et ranitilis
flexuosis.
Fou\irrcgulariter vertieillati, quina vel sena,
linearía : inidulata, patentia.
FLORES in umbellis confertis, horizontales :
corolla tubulosa, purpurea, brevis, inílata, eostata
: laciniis patent ibas cordata, peduneuli
brevi.
GERMEN tiarasforme, sulcatum : ad basin iiectariis
raelliferis ¡nstructum.
Habitat ad Capul Boníe Spei.
Floret a mWMM Autumnales.
RÜ,IS RENT I A.
1. Folium auetum.
3. Calyx lente u c t n s.
3. Flos.
4 . Stamen et pistilluin, antlierá unit lente auctá.
5. Germen et pistilluirj, stigmate lente anclo.
(i. Germen atictum.
7. Flos varictas.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom
flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed : leaves
linear and crowded : stein shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM shrubby, a loot and half high : the large
and smaller branches flexuose.
LEAVES grow in irregular whorls, of fives anil
sixes : waved and spreading.
FLOWERS grow in umbels, crowded and horizontal
: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated,
and ribbed : segments of the border heart-shaped
and spreading : footstalks short.
SEED-BCD turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur*
Dished at (he base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the Autumnal mouths.
REFERE N C E.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2. The Empalemeut magnified.
3. A Flower.
K. Tilt; chives and pouital, one lip magnified
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
6. Seed-bud magnified.
7. Flower of a variety.
THIS handsome shrub differs not Only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured m
Vol 3 but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears numerous
bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches : there are two slight
varieties one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of winch il
given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection.