E R I C A flageuiformis.
CHARACTER SPECIFICES.
ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: flores ramos terminaiit
in umbellis: folds ternatis : ramisvirgatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
CAULIS virgatus, pedalis : rami et ramuli filiformes,
flexuosissimi.
FOLIA ternata, erecta, crassa, obtusa, cauli adprcssa.
FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis : pedunculi
carnei : pcriantbium tctraphyllum : foliolis
spatbulatis, acuminatis, earners : corolla urceoiata,
saturate carnea, ad basin pallida : oris laeiniia
patcntibus.
GERMEN tiaroeforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis
melliferil instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bona; Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Augustum.
HEFERENTIA.
1. Calyx.
2. Corolla.
3. A [libera? et Pistil I um, antbcraunalenteaucta.
4 . Gormen el Pistillum, stigmate lentc aucto.
5. Germen lente auctum.
6. Ramus varietatis parvffi.
7. Ramus varietatis minoris erect*.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom:
flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves
by threes: branches twiggy.
DESCRIPTION".
STEM twiggy, a foot high : the large and smalle.
branches are thread-shaped, and very flexuose.
LEAVES by threes, straight, thick, obtuse, mi
pressed to the stem.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels:
footstalks flesh-coloured : empalement four-leaved:
leaflets spathula-sbaped, pointed, and flesh-coloured:
blossom pitiher-shapcd, of a deep flesh-colour,
but paler at the basé : segments of the border
spreading.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur.
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries,
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement.
2. The Blossom.
3. The Chives and Pointai, one tip magnified.
A . Seed-bud and Pointai, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
C. Branch of a small variety.
7. Branch of a smaller upright variety.
Tins Erica is figured from a drawing made in the gardens of G. Hibbert, Esq. as long back as
the summer of 1806, where it was raised from Cape seed amongst many others, and considered as
nearer allied to the E. calycina than any other species. There was only one more plant of .t, and
that was of a very straggling growth, hanging down over the sides of the pot in all directions, making
a very picturesque appearance, and to which we should certa.nly have given the preference if
„ had not considered it more a casualty of culture than as a permanent character,-wh,ch wc bad
n o t the opportunity of ascertaining, as both the plants died in the autumn,-we apprehend, from an
excessive inflorescencc,~-and have never since re-appeared. Among the dissections we have given
branches of two small seminal varieties, almost distinct enough to require a separate figure.