ERICA propendens.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales in ramulis lateralibus, pendulis, plerumque binati. Pedunculi colorati. Corolla campamilata, rubro-purpurea, tomentosa; laciniis lato-ovatis, patentibus. Folia quaterna, linearia, pubescentia; seniora reflexa. Caulis fruticosus, sub-pedalis, flexuosus. Rami patentes, ramulis floriferis pendulis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in small lateral pendulous branches, chiefly in pairs. Footstalks coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, of a red purple colour, and downy. The segments of the border are broadly egg-shaped, and spreading. Leaves by fours, linear, and downy; the older ones reflexed. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, and flexuose. Branches spreading, with the little flower-bearing branches pendulous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
