Volume 3 — ERICA villosa.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, exertis; floribus villosis, urceolatis, albis. Calyx villosus, ad marginem viridis; foliis ternis, revolutis, villosis. Caulis debilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, flexuosus, purpurascens. Rami et ramuli filiformes, villosi.
Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, ad margines revoluta; seniora patentia, juniora adscendentia; margine pilis longis hirta.
Flores in extremis ramulis terminates, subterni, penduli. Pedunculi longi, rubri; bracteis tribus minutis adpressis.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliolis lato-ovatis, sulcatis, totis densissime albo-villosis: margine calycis læte viridi.
Corolla urceolata, villosa, alba; oris laciniis obtusis, erectis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, exertæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, pubescens, ad basin glandulosum. Stylus filiformis, staminibus paulo longior. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Februarii in Junium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, lente aucta. 4. Flos. 5. Calyx lente auctus. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossom. Flowers hairy, pitcher-shaped, and white. Cup hairy, with green edges. Leaves by threes, rolled back at the edges, and hairy. Stem weak.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, flexuose, and of a purplish colour. The small and large branches are thread-shaped, and hairy.
Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, and rolled back at the edges; the older ones spreading, the younger ones ascending: the edges rough with long hairs.
Flowers grow at the extremity of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. The footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three small floral leaves pressed to them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved. Leaflets broadly egg-shaped, furrowed, and covered with long white hairs: the edges of the cup are of a bright green colour.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, hairy, and white; the segments of the border are obtuse, and upright.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, downy, and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little longer than the chives. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 4. A Flower. 5. The Empalement magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.
