DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot or more high; branches long, straggling, and clothed with leaves.
Flowers grow in terminal umbels, nodding: footstalks very long, red, and shining; blossom globularly bell-shaped, of a pale purple colour.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Empalement. 2. One Tip magnified. 3. The Seed-bud magnified. |
This fine species of Erica was introduced from the Cape of Good Hope to the gardens of G. Hibbert, Esq. in the summer of 1806. Our figure represents about one half of the plant, which being unique, the wish to increase it caused its destruction, as more cuttings were taken from it than its high state of inflorescence could endure; and although all possible care was taken to preserve the young plants, not one of them survived the winter.[Pg 147]