ERICA quadrangularis.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores ramulos terminant, terni, quaterni, vel quini, erecti vel patentes. Corolla bicolorata, supra alba, infra incarnata, tubulosa, quadrata, quatuor valvis vel suturis: oris laciniis revolutis. Folia numerosa, sparsa, ensiformia, curvata, adscendentia et patentia, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis sesquipedalis, fruticosus, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches in threes, fours, or fives, erect or spreading. Blossom two-coloured, white above and flesh-coloured beneath, tubular, squared, with four valves or seams: segments of the border rolled back. Leaves numerous, scattered, sword-shaped, curved, ascending and spreading, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem a foot and a half high, shrubby, upright, and branching: the large and small branches long.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
