ERICA Imperialis.
C H A R A C T E R SPECIFICL'S.
ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: fioribus terminal
iltus, spcciosissimts : foliis treraulis, ipicsliter
sparsis, trunca tía: ramis simplicibus.
DESCRIPTIO.
<' u i I - bip dalis, crcctus : ramis et ramulis
simplicibus, tangís.
FOLIA plerumque sena, linearía, obtusa, attenuata
iu petiolos longos capillarcs.
FLORÍN ramos tcrminant in vcrtieillis simplicibus,
patcntibus, viscosis: peduDcnlis longis,
recurvatis : cerolla cylindrico-clavala, longa :
ima parte profunde carnea, ápice viridi, ore aretala,
laciniis rectis.
GERMEN clavatum, sulcattun. Stylus filiformis,
subinclusus. Stigma pellatum, ooncavum.
Habitat ad Capul liona; Spei.
Florct a mense Novembri ad Januarinm.
BEFERENTIA.
1. Folium.
2. Calyx.
3 . Stamina a Pistillo did tic ta, anlbera una
lente ancla.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with bearded tips, within the blossom :
flowers terminal and showy: leaves tremulous,
I spirally scattered, appearing cut off at the ends:
branches simple.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM two feet high, upright: the large and
small branches simple and lung.
LEAVES mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and tapering
into longhair-like footstalks.
FLOWERS terminate the branches in simple
whorls, spreading and clammy: footstalks long
and recurved : blossom cylindiically club-shaped
and long : the lower part of a deep flesh-colour,
the end green, compressed at the mouth, whose
segments arc straight.
SEED-BCD club-shaped aud furrowed. Shaft
th re ad-sh aped, and just within the blossom :
summit shield-shaped and hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of November till
January.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf.
2. The Empalement.
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified.
I 5. Seed-bud magnified.
Otm figure represent, a spec-en from the conser.atory of the Earl of Northampton (.,, November
18181 the onlv plant . » eould find in bloom for the last ten years. It is certainly less hardy than
» , o f this Hoe tribe, and requires , elearer atmosphere than is to be met with the v.c.n.tj of so
large a city as London. It wa. first raised from Cape seed rn the collection of C . Hlbbert, Esq.
in 1806.