ERICA Bauera.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus spicatis, axillaribus, dependentibus: foliis quaternis: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, flexuosus; ramis longis, cum ramulis binis vel ternis, verticillatis.
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia.
Flores in medio ramorum, spicati: corollis dependentibus, subpollicaribus, cylindraceis, curvatis, pellucide albidis: pedunculis longis, bracteis tribus instructis.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium. 2. Idem subtus. 3. Calyx. 4. Stamen unum lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers grow in spikes from the axillæ of the leaves, hanging down: leaves by fours: stem upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright and flexuose: the large branches are long, with smaller branches of two or three in whorls.
Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, glaucous, and mostly spreading.
Flowers grow in spikes about the middle of the larger branches: blossoms hanging down, nearly an inch long, cylindrical, curved, of a transparent white: peduncles long, and furnished with three floral leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf. 2. The same shown from the under side. 3. The Empalement. 4. A Chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
We found this new species of Erica in bloom at the Hammersmith Nursery in the autumn of 1823, under the specific title of Bauera, in compliment to Mr. Bauer, Botanic Draftsman to the Royal Gardens at Kew. Throughout this extensive Genus of plants, we do not know any one it resembles at present: but in three or four years time the case may be different, Mr. Lee having a collector now in the interior of the Cape in search of novelties; and should his attempt in exploring that botanic mine prove successful, we may expect an importation of many distinct species and beautiful varieties.
