ERICA Nivenia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornutæ, exertæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, pedunculis longissimis. Corolla purpurea, sub-turbinata, costata, fauce parum arctata; laciniis revolutis. Folia terna, lato-linearia, obtusa, margine pilis longissimis obsita, subtus sulcata, patentia. Suffrutex pygmæus, ramosus. Rami et ramuli divaricati, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, with very long footstalks. Blossom purple, nearly top-shaped, ribbed, a little contracted at the mouth; the segments rolled back. Leaves by threes, broadly linear, blunt, and beset with long hairs at the edges, furrowed beneath, and spreading. It is a dwarf shrub, and very branching. The large and small branches are straggling and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf shown from the underside magnified. 2. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal magnified.
