ERICA Irbyana.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores ramos terminant in umbellis quinque-vel decem-floris, cum pedunculis longissimis, rubris, patentibus vel cernuis. Corolla alba, ad basin carnea, glutinosissima, pollicaris, lucida, ad summitatem cylindracea, ore arctata, ad basin inflata. Folia terna, trigona, subulata, recta, apice mucronata, supra plana, subtus carinata. Caulis pedalis, erectus. Rami longi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten flowers, with very long red footstalks, spreading or nodding. Blossom white, flesh-coloured at the base, and extremely glutinous, an inch long, shining, cylindrical on the upper part, narrowed at the mouth, and swelled out at the base. Leaves by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, straight, with a mucronated point, flat on the upper surface, and keeled beneath. Stem a foot high, erect. Branches long.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
