E R I C A exsurgens hybrida.
CHARACTER SPECIP1CÜS.
ERICA anfherismuticis, exsertis: floribusverticillatis:
foliis senis: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS sesqui pedal is, erectus: ramis el ramulúl
longis, simplicibus.
FOLIA sena, conferta, tenida, linearía, adscendontia:
peduncoli longissimi.
FLORES in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti,
vertieillis altor alten exsurgcntibus: cerolla clávala,
cylindracea, uncialis, cúrvala, carnea : oris
lacinüs magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis.
GERMEN tiarseforme, sulcatum, villosura, ad
basin nectariis mclliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
KEFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Stamen unum, antbera lente aucta.
3. Germen et Pistilium, stigmatc lente a
4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with beardless tips without the blossom :
flowers grow in whorls: leaves by sixes: stem
upright.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot and half high, upright: the large
and smaller branches, long and simple.
LEAVES hy sixes, crowded together, thin, linear,
and ascending : footstalks very long.
FLOWERS grow about the middle of the
branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising
out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically
club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and fleshcoloured
: segments of the mouth large, revolute,
and nearly white within.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose,
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing
nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. A Chive, summit magnified.
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnil
4. Seed-bud magnified.
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Tooting,
perfectly new and scarce Heath.