ERICA Salisburia.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ: stylo exerto. Flores spicati, conferti, prope apices ramorum: corollis clavatis, coccineis, erecto-patentibus: pedunculis coloratis. Folia verticillata, sena vel octona, erecta, lanceolata, intus plana, exterius sulcata: foliis ad basin angustioribus, acuminatis, patentibus. Caulis erectus, tetrapedalis: ramis plerumque simplicibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers grow in crowded spikes near the ends of the branches: blossoms club-shaped, and of a scarlet colour, between erect and spreading: footstalks coloured. Leaves in whorls of six to eight, upright and lance-shaped, flat on the inner and furrowed on the outer side: leaves at the base of the plant are narrower, pointed, and spreading. Stem upright, four feet high: branches mostly simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from October till February.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
