ERICA Bandonia.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pedalis, fruticosus: rami et ramuli erecto-patentes.
Folia terna, trigona, subulata, recta; supra plana subtus carinato.
Flores terminales in umbellis, quinis vel decem, cum pedunculis longissimis rubris: corollis urceolatis: oris laciniis patentes equalis.
Germen tiaræforme, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Septembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: shaft without flowers, terminal: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high, shrubby; small and large branches between; erect and spreading.
Leaves by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, and straight; flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath.
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten, with very long red footstalks: blossom pitcher-shaped: segments of the border spreading and equal.
Seed-bud turban shaped, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
This Erica, named in honour of Lord Bandon, was raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery. It is rather a dwarf, shrubby plant, with numerous flowers, the blossoms resemble the E. Ventricosa; the great length of the flower-stalks, are like the E. Irbyana, as is also the foliage, which likewise bear a similitude to the leaves of the E. taxifolia; but altogether it is perfectly distinct from any one hitherto delineated, and makes a brilliant appearance towards the autumn.
