ERICA acuminata angustiflora.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in summitate ramorum, verticillati, patentes. Corolla purpurea, cylindracea, uncialis, ore parum arctata: laciniis cordatis, acutis, revolutis. Folia quaterna, trigona, retorta, acuminata, lucida, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus. Rami flexuosi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow near the summit of the branches in whorls, spreading out. Blossom purple, cylindrical, an inch long, and rather narrowed at the mouth: segments of the border heart-shaped, sharp pointed, and rolled back. Leaves by fours, three-sided, revolute, sharp-pointed, and shining, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching. Branches flexuose, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom in March and April.
REFERENCE.
1. Empalement. 2. A chive, tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
