Volume 3 — ERICA staminea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, staminibusque extra flores solitarios divaricato-cernuis, foliis ternatis, ramis verticillatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, ramis numerosis, verticillatis patulis.
Folia ternata, erecta, parva, carnosa, lucida, subtus sulcata, petiolis ramulos adpressis.
Flores solitarii, terminales, in ramulos per-numerosos, laterales, ternatos, et paulo declinatos; pedunculi bracteis tribus instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis.
Corolla parva, tetragona, luteo-albida, laciniis patentibus rotundatis.
Stamina octo, capillaria, prælonga, extra flores plus minusve pendula; antheræ muticæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, lanuginosum; stylus filiformis.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junio ad Septembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 4. Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 5. Corolla varietatis albæ. 6. Stamina et Pistillum, lente aucta. 7. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 8. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, and chives divaricately cernuous from the solitary flowers, leaves in threes, and branches whorled.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, two feet high, with numerous whorled branches, very slightly spreading.
Leaves in threes, erect, small, fleshy, shining, furrowed beneath, with petioles pressed to the branchlets.
Flowers solitary, terminal, on very numerous, lateral, ternate, and slightly drooping branches; peduncles furnished with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets egg-shaped.
Blossom small, square, of a yellow-white colour, with segments spreading and rounded.
Chives eight, capillary, very long, and hanging more or less out of the flower; tips beardless.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly; shaft thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Empalement and floral leaves magnified. 5. A Blossom of a white variety. 6. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 7. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 8. The Seed-bud magnified.
