Volume 3 — ERICA odorata.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis oblique sparsis, obtusis: floribus umbellatis, albis, odoratis, campanulatis: pedunculis longissimis: ramis paucis, simplicibus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis: ramis paucis, suberectis, simplicibus, filiformibus.
Folia sparsa, sæpe quaterna, arcuata, margine glanduloso-denticulata, obtusa, supra planiuscula, subtus sulco exarata: petiolis longis.
Flores numerosi, sub apice ramorum umbellati, penduli: pedunculi flore triple longiores, flavescentes, viscidi: bracteis tribus minutis instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis ovatis, viscosis, adpressis.
Corolla campanulata, magna, alba, viscosa, lucida, melliodora: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo linearia: antheris muticis, inclusis.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, glandulis octo ad basin germinis. Stylus filiformis, sub-exertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Pagina inferior folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom: leaves grow scattered, and are blunt-ended: flowers grow in umbels, are white, sweet-scented, and bell-shaped: footstalks very long: branches few, and simple.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot high: branches few, nearly upright, simple, and thread-shaped.
Leaves grow scattered, sometimes by fours, bowed, appearing toothed by small glands at the edges, blunt-ended, flattish on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath: footstalks long.
Flowers numerous, growing in umbels at the ends of the branches, and hanging down: footstalks thrice the length of the blossom, yellowish, clammy, and furnished with three minute floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved: leaflets ovate, viscous, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, large, white, viscous, shining, and honey-scented: segments rounded, and reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with eight glands at the base of the seed-bud. Shaft thread-shaped, and just without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement. 3. Chives and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
