ERICA Swainsonia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ: flores ramos terminant in umbellis: corolla sub-cylindrica, pollicaris, miniata: folia quina vel sena, obtusa, erecta, conferta: caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramis verticillatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in umbels: blossoms nearly cylindrical, an inch long, of a reddish colour: leaves by fives and sixes, obtuse, upright, and crowded together: stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: the branches grow in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. The chives liberated from the pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
