Volume 3 — ERICA curviflora, rubra.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-exertis; floribus tubulosis, curvatis; pedunculis brevissimis. Folia quaterna. Caulis fruticosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pedalis et ultra. Rami et ramuli numerosi, erecto-patentes.
Folia quaterna, glabra, linearia, obtusa.
Flores ramulos terminant, solitarii, patentes, racemum sparsum formantes. Pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllus; foliolis ad basin ovatis, dentatis, apice subulatis.
Corolla curvata, clavata, pollicaris, rubra, limbo albicante; laciniis expansis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exertus. Stigma concavum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Januarium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folii inferior pars lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips just without the blossom. Flowers tubular, and curved. Footstalks very short. Leaves by fours. Stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot or more high. The large and small branches are numerous, erect, and spreading.
Leaves by fours, smooth, linear, and blunt-ended.
Flowers terminate the branches singly, spreading out, and forming a scattered spike. Footstalks very short, and furnished with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved: the leaflets at the base are ovate, toothed, and awl-shaped at the end.
Blossom curved, club-shaped, an inch long, red, with a whitish border; segments expanded.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without. Summit hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till January.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf shown from the under side magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.
