ERICA grandinosa.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pedalis, virgatus, flexuosus, fruticosus: ramulis patentibus.
Folia terna, sub-trigona, obtusa, brevia, crassiuscula.
Flores in apicibus ramulorum subterni, cernui: corolla campanulata, parva, albida, et costata: laciniis oris revolutis: pedunculus pallide carneus: calyx duplex, exteriori trifoliato, angustiori.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maii usque ad Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high, twiggy, flexuous, and shrubby: smaller branches spreading.
Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, obtuse, short, and thickish.
Flowers grow from the ends of the small branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom bell-shaped, small, white, and ribbed: segments of the mouth rolled back: peduncle of a pale flesh-colour: cup double, the outer one three-leaved, and narrower.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Chive, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
The Erica grandinosa was sent us in the month of June 1824, amongst many other new species, by Mr. Sinclair, from the splendid collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. This is one of those white-flowered Ericas so difficult to give a relief upon paper: it is a delicate little Heath, and although deficient in speciosity, claims attention as a perfectly new species, very distinct from any other hitherto figured.
