ERICA Archeria.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis, stylo exserto; floribus subterminalibus, verticillatis; corollis tubuloso-clavatis, villosis, rubro-purpureis, pollicaribus; foliolis senis, rigidis, serrato-ciliatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis; rami erecti, simplices; ramuli pauci, patento-erecti.
Folia sena, linearia, rigida, patentia, margine serrato-ciliata; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.
Flores in summitate ramorum subterminales, verticillati, patenti; pedunculi brevi, bracteis tribus instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, apicibus parum reflexis, hispidis, viscosis.
Corolla tubuloso-clavata, pollicaris, villosa, rubro-purpurea, viscosa; laciniis erectis.
Stamina. Filamento octo, capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen subovatum, octo-sulcatum, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret ab Augusto, in Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx, lente auctus. 2 Flos, magnitudine naturali. 3 Stamina et Pistillum. 4 Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 5 Germen, lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom, shaft without; flowers nearly terminate the branches in whorls; blossoms tubularly club-shaped, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and an inch long; leaves grow by sixes, harsh, and sawed at the edge as if fringed.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high; branches upright, simple; small branches few, grow upright-spreading.
Leaves grow by sixes, linear, harsh, spreading, sawed like a fringe at margin; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow nearly terminal at the top of the branches in whorls, spreading; foot-stalks short, with three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets between egg and lance-shaped, points a little reflexed, hairy and clammy.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red-purple colour, and clammy; segments upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads turned inwards at the top. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly egg-shaped, eight-furrowed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till November.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement, magnified. 2. A Flower, natural size. 3. The Chives and Pointal. 4. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 5. The Seed-bud, magnified.
