ERICA Uhria, pilosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ; stylo exerto, apice curvato. Flores terminales, sub-bini, numerosi. Corolla tubuloso-clavata, curvata, pilosa, rubro-purpurea, apice virescens, viscosa; laciniis limbi erectis. Folia terna, linearia, pilosa, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis. Rami pauci, erecti. Ramuli frequentissimi, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Shaft, without the blossom, curved at the point. Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by twos, and numerous. Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, hairy, of a red purple, green at the end, and clammy. Segments of the border upright. Leaves by threes, linear, hairy, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, two feet high. The larger branches are few and erect; the smaller branches numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
