Volume 3 — ERICA Broadleyana.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis; flores solitarii, penduli; pedunculi longi; corolla metulæformis; folia terna; caulis erectus, fragilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fragilis, sesquipedalis, erectus, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis.
Folia terna, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra, fasciculata.
Flores solitarii, penduli, in medio ramorum spicam laxam formantes: pedunculi longi, colorati: bracteis tribus infra minutis.
Calyx tetraphyllus; foliolis lanceolatis, adpressis.
Corolla metulæformis, rubro-purpurea; laciniis exiguis, erectis, luteis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen oblongum, leviter sulcatum, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret in mensibus autumnalibus.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers solitary, hanging down; footstalks long; blossom skittle-shaped; leaves by threes; stem upright and brittle.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem brittle, a foot and a half high, upright, and shrubby, with numerous small branches.
Leaves by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, smooth, and bundled.
Flowers grow singly, hanging down, and forming a loose spike about the middle of the branches: footstalks long, and coloured, with three minute floral leaves on the lower part.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom skittle-shaped, of a red purple colour; the segments of the border are small, upright, and yellow.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud oblong, lightly furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
