ERICA Melastoma.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, penicillatæ, exsertæ, longitudine corollæ, attenuatæ in filamenta plana. Flores flavi, conici, parum curvati, laciniis longissimis adpressis, nigris. Folia quaterna, linearia, sub-scabrida, rigida. Caulis laxus, erectus, bipedalis. Ramuli brevissimi, foliosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, pencil-like, and without the blossom, tapering into threads, which are flat. Flowers yellow, conical, slightly curved, the segments of the border very long, pressed to the chives, and black. Leaves by fours, linear, roughish, and stiff. Stem weak, upright, grows two feet high. The small branches very short, and covered with leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A flower divested of its empalement. 3. The chives detached from the pointal. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
