ERICA barbata, minor.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris cristatis, sub-exsertis, stylo exserto; corollis urceolatis, albis, pilosis; pedunculis longissimis; bracteis distantibus; floribus umbellatis, terminalibus; foliis quaternis, ovatis, barbatis, patentibus, glanduloso-ciliatis.
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 patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria. Antheræ cristatæ, sub-exsertæ.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, sulcatum, pilosum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret ab Augusto, in Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, lente auctum. 2. Flos. 3. Calyx, lente auctus. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 6. Germen, auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips, just without the blossom, shaft 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, and glandularly fringed.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows a foot high, and zig-zagged; 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; 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.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets spathula-shaped, bearded, glandularly hairy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy, viscous, segments of the mouth spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed, hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August, till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. A Flower. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 5. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud, magnified.
