ERICA flammea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis; stylo exserto, corollis tubiformibus, rectis; floribus laxè spicatis, subsecundis, palide luteis, apicibus subalbidis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, erectis, glabris.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus strictissimus, flexilis, parum ramosus, bipedalis, fruticosus; rami tenui, pauci, erecti; ramuli filiformes, virgati.
Folia quaterna, in apicibus ramulorum sæpe terna, obtusa, glabra, erecta, linearia, petiolis brevissimis, adpressis.
Flores in ramulis terminales, racemum formantes prope caulis summitatem; pedunculi brevissimi; bracteis tribus ad basin calycis.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, adpressis, glaberrimis.
Corolla tubiformis, recta, subpubescens, subpollicaris, pallide lutea, apice subalbida, laciniis brevissimis, obtusis, parum reflexis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma obsolete tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret ab Octobre in Februarium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Flos. 2. Calyx auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, Anthera una lente aucta. 4. Pistillum, Stigma auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom; shaft without; blossoms trumpet-shaped, and straight; flowers grow in loose spikes, all rather turned one way, of a pale yellow with white ends; leaves grow by fours, linear, upright, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, very strict, flexile, branching but little, grows two feet high, shrubby; the branches are slender, few and upright; the smaller branches are thread-shaped and twiggy.
Leaves grow by fours, at the ends of the small branches often by threes, blunt, smooth, upright, linear, with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers are terminal on the small branches, making a long bunch or spike near the summit of the stem; foot-stalks very short; three floral leaves at the base of the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, pressed to the blossom, very smooth.
Blossom trumpet-shaped, straight, rather downy, almost an inch long, of a pale yellow, the end whitish, segments of the border very short, blunt, a little reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, tips beardless within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furred. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit obscurely four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from October ’till February.
REFERENCE.
1. A flower. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, with one Tip magnified. 4. The Pointal, Summit magnified.
