ERICA Lawsonia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
EaiCA antheris muticis, inclusis : foliis quaternis :
corullis tubadbnnibus : caule humili, fruticoso.
DESCRJPTIOi
CAULIS pygmauis : ramis ct ramulis filiformibus,
virgatis.
FOLIA quaterua, Hnearia, acuta, crecto-patentia.
FLORES in medio ramorum, sparsi : pedunculis
brcvibus.
COROLLA rubra, tuba»formis, tenuissima: oris
laciniis acuminata, patentibus.
GERMEN tiaroeforme, sulcatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonse Spei.
Floret a Mense Junio ad Augustum.
R E F E R E N T I A .
1. Folium lente auctum.
2. Calyx lente auctus.
3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, .inthcra una
lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente auclo.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATU with beardless tips, within the blossom:
leaves by fours: blossom trumpet-shaped: stem
low and shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
A DWARF SHRVB : the small and large branches
thread-shaped and twiggy.
LEAVES by fours, linear, pointed, and between
erect and spreading.
FLOWERS grow about the middle of the
branches, scattered : footstalks short.
BLOSSOM red, trumpet-shaped, and very slender:
segments of the border arc sharp-pointed and
spreading.
SEED-EUD turban-shaped and furrowed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till August.
R E F E R E N C E .
1. The Leaf magnified.
2. The Empaleracnt magnified.
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one
tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
Tins elegant dwarf shrub was named after the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart. Our figure was
drawn in the summer of 1818 from a plant four years old ; and if we can judge from the appearance
of those plants we have seen in different collections, it will continue to he, as it is at present,
slow in growth and low in stature.
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