Volume 3 — ERICA Nivenia, longiflora.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris aristatis, exertis, cohærentibus: floribus terminalibus, umbellatis: pedunculis longissimis: corollis longis, costatis, purpureis: foliis ternis: caule humili.
DESCRIPTIO.
Suffrutex pygmæus, ramosissimus: rami et ramuli patentes.
Folia patentia, terna, late-linearia, obtusa, subtus sulcata, marginibus revolutis pilis longis et glandulis obsitis.
Flores ramos terminant in umbellis, patentes: pedunculis longissimis: bracteis tribus adpressis.
Calyx tetraphyllus: foliolis angustis, apice glandulosis.
Corolla uncialis, pyramidalis, costata, purpurea, sub apice inflata, ad basin attenuata: ore arctata, quod nigrum est: laciniis obliquis, revolutis.
Stamina octo capillaria: antheræ aristatæ, exertæ, cohærentes.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, viride, ad basin nectariferum. Stylus filiformis, exertus. Stigma concavum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Martii in Junium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Flos. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips, without the blossom, and adhering together: flowers terminal, in umbels: footstalks very long: blossom long, ribbed, and purple: leaves by threes: stem low.
DESCRIPTION.
A dwarf shrub, very branching: the small and large branches are spreading.
Leaves spreading, grow by threes, are broadly linear, and obtuse, furrowed beneath, with revolute edges that are beset with long hairs and glands.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, spreading: footstalks very long, with three floral leaves pressed to them.
Empalement four-leaved: leaflets narrow, and glandular at the point.
Blossom an inch long, of a pyramidal form, ribbed, and purple, swelled near the end, and attenuated towards the base; narrowed at the mouth, which is black; the segments are oblique, and rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips bearded, without the blossom, and adhering together.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and green, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit concave.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
