ERICA cylindrica.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris basi bicornibus inclusis, stylo exerto, corollis subcylindraceis, laciniis revolutis, foliis quaternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, bipedalis, ramosus, ramulis erectis, subsimplicibus.
Folia quaterna, erecta, linearia, viridia, supra plana, subtus sulcata, minutissime pubescentia.
Flores fasciculati, terminales, in ramulis lateralibus terni et quaterni; pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus ternatis, setæformibus, basin instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis adpressis, linearibus, basi dilatatis, dorso sulcatis, lente ciliatis.
Corolla subcylindrica, aliquo recurvata, uncialis, læte fusco-aurantia, lente pubescens, laciniis latissime ovatis, revolutis.
Stamina octo, capillaria, antheris basi bicornibus, inclusis, cornibus lente bifurcatis.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme; stylus filiformis; stigma tetragonum, antheras superans.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Flos, cum pedunculo brevissimo. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, a corolla diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base within the blossom, the shaft without, blossom nearly cylindric, with its segments rolled back; leaves in fours.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, erect, two feet high, branched, with the little branches erect and nearly simple.
Leaves in fours, erect, linear, green, plane above, furrowed beneath, and very slightly pubescent.
Flowers bundled, terminal, in the lateral branches in threes and fours; the very short footstalks furnished with three ternate, bristle-shaped, floral leaves at the base.
Empalement four-leaved, the leaves pressed to the blossom, linear, dilated at the base, furrowed on the back, and in the magnifier ciliated.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, a little recurved, an inch long, of a bright brown orange colour, pubescent when magnified, with the segments very broad-ovate and rolled back.
Chives eight, hair-like, with the tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom, with the horns bifurcated when magnified.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped; shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered, higher than the tips.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Flower with its very short foot-stalk. 2. The Chives and Pointal, detached from the blossom, with one of the tips magnified. 3. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the stigma magnified. 4. The Seed-bud magnified.
