ERICA concinna.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus in medio ramorum fasciculatis, suberectis; corollis subcylindricis, basi attenuatis, carneis, pubescentibus; foliis subsenis, glabris, patentibus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, fruticosus, tripedalis, pyramidatus, glaber; rami pauci, erecti; ramuli verticillati, subsimplices, erecto-patentes.
Folia sub-sena, glabra, linearia, patentia; petiolis brevissimis.
Flores in medio ramorum fasciculati, terminales, umbellati, umbellæ 3-10-floræ; pedunculi brevissimi; bracteæ subulatæ, calyci adpressæ, ciliatæ.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliola basi latiora, ciliata, adpressa.
Corolla subcylindrica, ore parum arctata, carnea, pubescens; laciniis patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen turbinatum, supra concavum, margine crenulato. Stylus filiformis, rubicundus. Stigma sub-capitatum, atro-rubens.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret ab Octobre, in Decembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 5. Germen, auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers grow in small bundles about the middle of the branches, rather upright; blossoms nearly cylindrical, tapered to the base, flesh-coloured, downy; leaves grow mostly by sixes, smooth and spreading.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, shrubby, grows three feet high, pyramidally, smooth; branches few, upright; small branches whorled, nearly simple, between upright and spreading.
Leaves grow mostly by sixes, smooth, linear, spreading, with very short foot-stalks.
Flowers grow bundled about the middle of the branches, terminal, and in umbels, 3-10 flowers in each umbel; foot-stalks very short; floral leaves awl-shaped, pressed to the cup, fringed.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets broader at the base, fringed, pressed to the stem.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, the mouth a little narrowed, flesh-coloured, downy; segments spreading.
Chives. Threads eight, hair-like. Tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed bud top-shaped, concave at the top, with the margin scolloped. Shaft thread-shaped, reddish. Summit nearly headed, of a deep red.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from October, till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement and Blossom. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal; one Tip magnified. 4. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 5. The seed-bud, magnified.
