Volume 3 — ERICA Hyacinthoides.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus sessilibus, erectis, terminalibus, quaternis, confertis, incarnatis, undulatis: foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, spithameus, erectus, ramosus; ramuli frequentissimi, erecto-patentes.
Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, crassiuscula, nitida, patentia, petiolis brevissimis.
Flores sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni, conferti, terminates, fere pedunculati.
Calyx tetraphyllum, foliolis ad basin late ovatis, dentatis, superne acuminatis; bracteis tribus subulatis, canaliculatis, adpressis.
Corolla ventricosa, incarnata, ore arctata; laciniis sub-cordatis, undulatis, expansis, maximis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ; muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, læviter sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Augustum
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers sessile, upright, and terminating the ends of the branches by fours, crowded together, flesh-coloured, and waved; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching; the smaller branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, shining, and spreading, footstalks very short.
Flowers sit close in upright bunches, by fours, on the ends of the branches, scarce any footstalks.
Empalement four-leaved, the leaflets at the base are broadly egg-shaped, and toothed, sharp-pointed above; there are three floral leaves, awl-shaped, channelled, and pressed to the cup.
Blossom swelled out, and flesh-coloured, narrowed at the mouth, the segments are nearly heart-shaped, waved, spreading, and very large.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and slightly furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement and Blossom. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. The Seed-bud magnified.
