Volume 3 — ERICA mammosa, minor.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris aristatis, inclusis; stylus sub-exertus; floribus verticillatis, pendulis, ventricoso-cylindricis supra basin constrictis; foliis quaternis, linearibus, glabris.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; rami verticillati, curvati.
Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, curvata; seniora patentia, juniora adscendentia.
Flores semi-unciales, in summitate ramorum verticillati, penduli; pedunculi colorati, bracteis duabus minutis remotis instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllum; foliolis lato-ovatis, acutis, apicibus coloratis, adpressis.
Corolla purpurea, ventricoso-cylindrica, apice attenuata, ad basin constricta; laciniis minutis, erectis, ovatis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Septembris in Decembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Stylus, stigmate aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom; the shaft just without; flowers grow in whorls, hanging down, of a swelled cylinder shape pinched in at the base; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high; branches grow in whorls, and are curved.
Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, and curved; the older ones spreading, and the younger ones ascending.
Flowers half an inch long, near the summits of the branches in whorls hanging down; footstalks coloured, having two small floral leaves at a distance from the cup.
Empalement four-leaved; leaflets of a broad egg-shape, pointed, the ends coloured, and pressed to the blossoms.
Blossom purple, of a swelled cylinder shape, tapered at the end and pinched in at the mouth; segments of the border are very small, upright, and oval.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of September till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.
