ERICA vestita fulgida.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis subexertis, corollis clavatis pollicaribus saturate et læte rubris, foliis senis setaceis, in petiolos capillares deorsum attenuatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, tripedalis, ramosus, ramis plerumque erectis, subsimplicibus.
Folia plerumque sena, setacea, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde tremulentia, subtus sulcata.
Flores supra medium ramorum, conferti, numerosi, patuli, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis.
Corolla uncialis et ultra, clavata, læte et saturate rubra.
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis, et longissime acuminatis.
Stamina octo, capillaria, receptaculo affixa, antheris muticis, paulo exertis.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme; stylus filiformis, exertus; stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junio ad Septembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Calyx et Corolla. 4. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips just without the blossom; blossoms club-shaped, an inch long, deep bright red; leaves in sixes, bristle-shaped, and attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, three feet high, with the branches mostly erect and simple.
Leaves chiefly in sixes, bristle-shaped, attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks, and thence tremulous, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers above the middle of the branches, crowded, numerous, patulous, with short peduncles, furnished with three floral leaves.
Blossom above an inch long, club-shaped, of a deep bright red colour.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets ovate, and very much acuminated.
Chives eight hair-like threads, affixed to the receptacle, with the tips beardless, and just without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped; shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom; summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Empalement and Blossom. 4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 5. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified.
