Volume 3 — ERICA tiaræflora.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, exsertis; floribus cernuis, tiaræformibus, a calyce fere contectis; foliis ternis, obtusis, linearibus, rigidis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sub-sesquipedalis, ramosus; rami terni, patentes, erecti.
Folia terna, obtusa, linearia, rigida, erecto-patentia.
Flores in ramulis terminales, sub-terni, cernui; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus spathulatis instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lato-ovatis, apice coloratis, incurvatis.
Corolla tiaræformis, apice incarnata, ad basin albida; laciniis minutis, obtusis, erectis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, exertæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium. 2. Calyx et Corolla, lente aucti. 3. Corolla. 4. Eadem lente aucta. 5. Anthera una lente aucta. 6. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta. 7. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers nodding, turban-shaped, and nearly hid by the empalement; leaves by threes, blunt, linear, and harsh.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, near a foot and a half high, and branching; branches by threes, spreading, and upright.
Leaves by threes, blunt, linear, harsh, upright, and spreading.
Flowers terminate the branches by threes, nodding; footstalks long, and furnished with three spathula-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets are broadly egg-shaped, coloured at the ends, and turned inwards.
Blossom turban-shaped, flesh-coloured at the ends, and whitish at the base; the segments of the border are very small, blunt, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. The same magnified. 5. A Chive magnified. 6. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 7. Seed-bud magnified.
