ERICA crassifolia.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis inclusis; floribus terminalibus; corolla campanulata; folia terna; caulis fruticosus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis humilis, fruticosus; rami et ramuli flexuosi.
Folia terna, oblonga, fere rotunda, brevia, carnosa, glauca, patentia et adscendentia.
Flores ramulos subterminantes, plerumque terni; corolla campanulata, rosea, oris laciniis cordatis, reflexis.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal; blossom bell-shaped; leaves by threes; stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem low, shrubby, the large and smaller branches flexuose.
Leaves by threes, oblong, roundish, short, fleshy, glaucous, spreading, and ascending.
Flowers nearly terminate the smaller branches, mostly by threes; blossom bell-shaped, rose-coloured; segments of the border heart-shaped, and reflexed.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf, magnified. 2. Empalement, magnified. 3. Chives and Pointal. 4. One Chive, magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
The Erica crassifolia is a perfectly new species, raised last summer from Cape seed, at Messrs. Rollinson’s, Lower Tooting. It is a low bushy shrub, possessing a smooth handsome foliage, of a thick and fleshy appearance; by no means common to the genus, and therefore will not be very difficult to distinguish either in, or out of bloom. Flowers during the months of May and June.
