ERICA Shannonea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornibus inclusis; flores terminales in umbellis quinis vel octonis, cum pedunculis longissimis rubris: corollis ampullaceis, pallide carneis, glutinosissimus; folia terna, trigona, subulata, recta; caulis pedalis, erectus, fruticosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two, horned at the base within the blossom; flowers, terminate; the branches in umbels of five to eight, with very long red footstalks; blossom flask-shaped, of a pale flesh colour, and very glutinous; leaves by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped and straight; stem a foot high, upright and shrubby.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till September.
REFERENCES.
1. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
