ERICA Echiflora purpurea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, dense verticillati, horizontales. Corolla tubulosa, brevis, inflata, costata, instar Echii; oris laciniis patentibus, cordatis. Folia irregulariter verticillata, quina vel sena, linearia, acuta. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, densely whorled, and horizontal. Blossom tubular, short, inflated, and ribbed, resembling an Echium: segments of the border spreading and heartshaped. Leaves grow in irregular whorls of fives or sixes, linear, and pointed. Stem shrubby, a foot and half high.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom late in Autumn.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. Flower of a variety. 3. A chive, tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
