ERICA Russeliana.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in apicibus ramorum, plerumque terni, cernui. Corolla urceolata, rubra: laciniis oris patentibus, cordatis, carneis, acutis. Pedunculi rubri, longi: bracteis tribus minoribus instructi. Folia quaterna, trigona, leviter curvata, acuta, lucida. Caulis sesquipedalis, virgatus, flexuosus. Ramuli erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by threes, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, and red: segments of the border spreading out, heart-shaped, flesh-coloured, and pointed. Foot-stalks red, long, furnished with three small floral leaves. Leaves by fours, three-sided, slightly curved, pointed and shining. Stem a foot and a half high, twiggy, and flexuose. Branches between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom early in Summer, and again in Autumn.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. A chive, one tip magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
