ERICA retorta.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores plures, sub-terminales, verticillati, viscosi. Pedunculi longi. Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata; ima parte carnea, summa saturate purpurea, ore arctata. Folia quaterna, retorta, seta terminali aristata, margine ciliata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, erectus, ramosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers are numerous, nearly terminal, in whorls, and clammy. Footstalks long. The blossom is swelled at the base, and tapers to the point; the lower part is of a flesh-colour, the upper of a deep purple, and straitened at the mouth. Leaves by fours, rolled back, and terminating with an awn-like bristle, fringed at the edge. Stem shrubby, a foot high, upright, and branching.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf. 2. The empalement magnified, 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
