ERICA barbata major.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris cristatis, inclusis; stylo sub-exserto; corollis urceolatis, albis, pilosis; pedunculis longissimis, bracteis distantibus; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus; foliis quaternis, ovatis, barbatis, patentibus, subtus concavis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, flexuosus; rami filiformes, laxi, pauci; ramuli villosiusculi, patenti.
Folia quaterna, ciliata, ovata, parum curvata, patentia, subtus concava, supra glandulosa; petiolis adpressis.
Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales, umbellati, cernui, pedunculi pilis obsiti, foliis longiores, bracteis distantibus.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis, spathulatis, barbatis, glanduloso-pilosis adpressis.
Corolla urceolata, alba, pilosa, viscosa, oris laciniis erectis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, sulcatum, pilosum. Stylus filiformis, subexsertus. Stigma obsoletè tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a Maio; in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Corolla, magnitudine naturali. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 6. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 7. Pistillum, lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with crested tips, within the blossom, shaft just without; blossoms pitcher-shaped, white, hairy; foot-stalks very long, floral leaves distant from the blossom; flowers grow in umbels at the end of the branches; leaves grow by fours, egg-shaped, bearded, spreading, concave beneath.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows a foot high and zigzaged; branches are thread-shaped, limber and few; small branches are a little hairy and grow spreading.
Leaves grow by fours, fringed, oval, rather curved, spreading, concave beneath, glandular above; with foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, nodding; foot-stalks covered with hairs, longer than the leaves, leaflets distant from the blossom.
Empalment. Cup four-leaved; leaflets spathula shaped, bearded, glandularly-hairy and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy, viscous, segments of the mouth upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed, hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit bluntly four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May, till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Cup, magnified. 3. The Blossom, natural size. 4. The Chives and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal. 6. A Chive, magnified. 7. The Pointal, magnified.
