ERICA Solandra.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, capitatim aggregati, parvuli. Corolla parva, obsolete campanulata, incarnata; calyce subulato, hispido. Folia quaterna, parva, obtusa, valde hispida, erecta; seniora patentia, et recurva. Caulis suffrutescens, semipedalis, flexuosus, valde ramosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in crowded heads, and small. Blossom small, obscurely bell-shaped, and flesh-coloured. The cup is awl-shaped, and hispid. Leaves by fours, small, obtuse, very hispid, and upright. The older ones are spreading and bent back. Stem shrubbyish, half a foot high, flexuose, and very much branched.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom nearly all the year.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. The seed-bud, chives and pointal, magnified.
