ERICA Thunbergia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores prope apices ramulorum, pedunculis longissimis: corollis campanulatis: laciniis cordatis, læte coccineis, ad basin globosis, luteis. Folia ternata, linearia, erecta, obtusa. Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus, ramis filiformibus virgatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches. Footstalks very long. Blossoms bell-shaped. Segments of the border are heart-shaped, and of a bright scarlet, globular beneath, and yellow. Leaves by threes, linear, upright, and blunt-ended. Stem a foot and a half high, upright. Branches thread-shaped and twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal.
