The heathery; or, A monograph of the genus Erica. vol. 3

OR A MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS ERICA: CONTAINING COLOURED ENGRAVINGS, WITH LATIN AND ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONS, DISSECTIONS, ETC. OF ALL THE KNOWN SPECIES OF THAT EXTENSIVE AND DISTINGUISHED TRIBE OF PLANTS. By H. C. ANDREWS. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. III. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1845.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores fasciculati, sub-terminales. Pedunculi breves. Corolla sub-cylindrica, ore arctata, pollicaris, purpurea; laciniis ovatis, revolutis. Folia quaterna, trigona, retorta, acuminata, lucida, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramossissimus. Rami flexuosi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in bunches, nearly terminal. Footstalks short. Blossom nearly cylindrical, narrowed at the mouth, an inch long, and purple. Segments of the border are egg-shaped, and rolled back. Leaves by fours, three-sided, rolled back, sharp-pointed, and shining, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, a foot high, very branching. The branches are flexuose, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, terni. Pedunculi longi, purpurei, bracteis tribus instructi. Corolla sesquipollicaris, sulcata, linearia, summo inflata, ore arctata; laciniis cordatis, maximis, expansis, extus carneis, intus albidis. Folia terna, erecto-patentia, serrata, acuminata, crassa, subtus sulcata. Caulis sesquipedalis. Rami et ramuli filiformes, flexibiles. Rami simplices, longi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. Flowers grow at the summit of the branches, three in a bunch. The footstalks are long, purple, and furnished with three floral leaves. Blossom an inch and a half long, furrowed and linear, swelled at the end and narrowed at the mouth; the segments of the border are very large, and expanded, flesh-coloured on the outside, and white within. Leaves by threes, between erect and spreading, sawed, sharp-pointed, thick, and furrowed beneath. Stem a foot and a half high. The large and small branches are thread-shaped and supple. The branches are simple and long.