ERICA tubiflora.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-exsertis, floribus sub-solitariis, sessilibus, terminalibus; corollis clavato-cylindricis, curvatis, pubescentibus; foliis quaternis, tenuibus, ciliatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis flexibilis, erectus, superne tomentosus; rami sparsi, filiformes, frequentes, villosi; ramuli frequentissimi brevissimi.
Folia quaterna, tenuia, obtusa, ciliata, subtus sulcata.
Flores sessiles, in ramulis terminates, sub-solitarii, patenti, racemum quasi formantes longum.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis spathulatis, ciliatis, pedunculis fere nullis, bracteis tribus adpressis.
Corolla clavata, curvata, villosa, carnea oris laciniis acutis, reflexis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, sub-exsertæ.
Pistillum. Germen pedicillatum, sub-globosum, profunde sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, apice curvatus, exsertus. Stigma obsolete tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mensi Aprili, in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, auctum.
2. Calyx.
3. Calyx, auctus.
4. Corolla.
5. Stamina, et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.
6. Pistillum.
7. Pistillum, auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers grow mostly singly at the end of the branches; blossoms between club and cylindar-shaped, curved and downy; leaves grow by fours, thin and fringed with hairs.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem flexible, upright, and downy at the upper part; branches scattered, thread shaped, numerous and hairy, the smaller branches are very numerous and very short.
Leaves grow by fours, are thin, blunt, fringed with hair at the edges, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers sit close upon the ends of the small branches, mostly solitary, and spreading, appearing like a long bunch.
Empalement. Cup four leaves, leaflets spatula-shape and fringed, with scarce any foot-stalks; three floral leaves pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, curved, hairy and flesh-coloured; the segments of the border pointed, and reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud growing on a foot-stalk nearly globular, and deeply furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, curved at the end, and without the blossom. Summit obscurely four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified.
2. The Empalement.
3. The Empalement, magnified.
4. The Blossom.
5. The Chives, and Pointal, one tip magnified.
6. The Pointal.
7. The Pointal, magnified.
