ERICA radiata discolor.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus verticillatis: caule fruticoso, erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis bipedalis, erectus, ramosus: ramis subsimplicibus.
Folia plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia, undulata, acuminata.
Flores in ramulorum sub apicibus verticillati, horizontaliter siti: corolla subcylindracea: oris laciniis recurvatis, cordatis, albis.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
REFERENTIA.
1. Varietas Ericæ metulæflora discolor. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamen et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow in whorls: stem shrubby and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem two feet high, upright and branching: the branches nearly simple.
Leaves mostly by fours, linear, spreading, undulate, and pointed.
Flowers grow in whorls near the ends of the branches, standing horizontally; blossom nearly cylinder-shaped: segments of the border recurved, heart-shaped, and white.
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. Discoloured variety of Erica Metulæflora. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamen and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
The Ericas radiata and metulæflora, figured in the 1st and 3rd volume of this work, are scions from a hybrid production of an Erica known by the specific title of spuria. Our figure represents an elegant variety of the E. radiata, raised from Cape seed at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson in the autumn of 1826.
Among the dissections we have taken the opportunity of giving a branch with flowers of a similar variation of E. metulæflora, to avoid the necessity for a separate figure.
