ERICA vestita rosea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis sub-exsertis; corollis clavatis, pollicaribus, roseis; foliis octonis, in petiolos capillares deorsum attenuatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, plus minusve flexuosus, ramis longis, simplicibus, foliosis.
Folia plerumque octona, conferta, setacea, semilinearia, obtusa, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde eleganter tremula.
Flores aggregatim verticillati, apices versus ramorum robustiorum, expansi vel nutantes; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus alternis medio instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis adpressis, inferne lanceolato-ovatis, superne longissime acuminatis.
Corolla per-rosea, uncialis et ultra, basin versus magis attenuata, et sub apicem magis inflata, quam in aliis varietatibus hujus speciei.
Stamina octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, sub-exsertæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, superne sericeum, basi glandulis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julio ad Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium. 2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina diducta et expansa, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips rather without the blossom; blossoms club-shaped, an inch long, and rosy; leaves in eights, and attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, but more or less flexuose, with the branches long, simple, and leafy.
Leaves chiefly in eights, crowded, bristle-shaped, half a line long, blunt, attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks, and thence elegantly tremulous.
Flowers crowdedly whorled, near the ends of the stoutest branches, expanded or nodding; peduncles short, furnished near the middle with three alternate floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets pressed to the blossom, near the base lance-egg-shaped, upwards extremely acuminated.
Blossom deep rosy, above an inch long, towards the base more attenuated, and near the apex more inflated, than the other varieties of this species.
Chives eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, rather without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, upwards silky, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing glands.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives detached and spread open, with one tip magnified. 5. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified.
