ERICA exsurgens hybrida.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticillatis: foliis senis: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis, simplicibus.
Folia sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia: pedunculi longissimi.
Flores in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti, verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla clavata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea: oris laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple.
Leaves by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long.
Flowers grow about the middle of the branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured: segments of the mouth large, revolute, and nearly white within.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
This Erica resembles the E. exsurgens in its flowering, with some affinity in the foliage to the E. vestita alba, and is considered an hybrid production between those species.
Our figure was taken from a plant, four years old, at the nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting, in the autumn of 1824, where it was first raised from seed, and is at present regarded as a perfectly new and scarce Heath.
