Volume 3 — ERICA aurea, flore pallido.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; floribus verticillatis; corollis cylindraceis, luteis; foliis senis, linearibus; caule erecto, fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, sub-erectus: ramis patentibus.
Folia sena, linearia, patentia, apice incurvata: petiolis longis.
Flores horizontaliter verticillati, prope ramorum summitatem; pedunculis brevissimis.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, cum bracteis tribus adpressis.
Corolla cylindracea, luteolo-aurea, apice inflata; oris laciniis magnis, albicantibus, et patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria: antheris muticis, sub-inclusis.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips just within the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; blossom cylindrical and yellow; leaves by sixes, and linear; stem upright and shrubby.
DESCRIPTIO.
Stem shrubby, a foot high, nearly upright; branches spreading.
Leaves by sixes, linear, spreading, and turning inwards at the points; footstalks long.
Flowers grow horizontally in whorls near the summits of the branches; footstalks very short.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with three floral leaves pressed to them.
Blossom cylindrical, of a yellow gold colour, swelled at the end; segments of the border large, whitish and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and just within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
