ERICA vernix, longiflora.
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DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ: flores plerumque ternati: corolla urceolata, glutinosissima, et lucida, colore aureo rubro tincto: limbo saturate viridi; laciniis erectis: folia ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata: caulis erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramulis ternis, verticillatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom: flowers mostly by threes: blossom pitcher-shaped, very glutinous and shining, of a gold colour tinged with red, and the border of a deep green; segment of the border upright: leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath: stem upright, a foot or more high: the smaller branches grow by threes in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
