E R I C A exudans.
CHARACTER SPEClFICUS.
ERICA, anthcris muticis, sub-inclus¡s : stylo subexerto
: floribus cylindraceis, tcnninalibus : foliis
quatcrnis, glandulosis, viscosis.
DE.SCRIPTIO.
GAULIS ses qui pedal is, fruticosus, ramulis numcrosis
erectia.
FOLIA qualerna, linearis, obtusa, glandulosa,
viscosa, erecto-patentia.
FLORES plerumquequaterni,cenroi, terminales:
corollis c j l i n d r a e e i B , costalis, luteolo-rubris, subuucialibus,
arc ii a lis.
GERMEN liara'forrae, sulcatum, ad basin nccta.
lïis mcllifcris iustructuai.
Habitat ad Caput Bona- Spei.
Floret a mette J alii ad Noveuibrem.
RE FEU EN TIA.
1. Folium lente auctum.
5. Calw lente auctus.
3. Germen lente auctum.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with bearded lips, just within the bios,
som : shaft just without: dowers cylindrical, aud
terminating the branches: leaves by fours, glandular,
and clammy.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a fool and half high, shrubby, with numerous
small upright branches.
LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandulur,
viscous, aud between erect aud spreading.
FLOWERS mostly by fours, nodding, and terminal
: blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowilh
red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished
al the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2 . The Empalement magnified.
3. Sced-bud magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnifW.
Tins Erica bears the compound appearance or the E. droseroides nod E. aostata : resembling the latlcr
in ils flowers, and the former in its foliage, which is covered with glands, from w Inch a thin and vacuus
juice exudes. Our drawing of it was first taken from plants in the Nursery of Mr. Buchanan tf
Camberwell, as long back as 1S05 ; since that time it has been so nearly lost, that it was shown ^
as a novelty in IS 15; and we should not he surprised if it again becomes an absentee, as the few Ertf
that possess- glands on the foliage are difficult to preserve either in beauty or health, being subject
the adhesion of all sorts of dust, which obscuring their verdure, at the same time obstructs that pc«P
ration which being so very apparent, indicates it to be indispensably requisite to the health of the plan,