Leaves by fours, spreading horizontally, short, nearly linear, blunt-ended, with bristly margins.
Flowers terminate the branches in one to four flowers, nodding: blossom club-shaped, curved, and of a reddish colour.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till November.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 3. Intermediate flower varieties. |
This Erica varies considerably from the original species, and yet retains the leading feature of transparency that designates the mother plant. The flowers given with the dissections are from plants nearly allied to the white-flowered pellucida; and had we been then in possession of them, they would have arranged better with that figure; but this opportunity admits of their being made use of as intermediate varieties of flower only.
Our drawing was taken at the Hammersmith nursery in 1816, where it was first raised from seed.[Pg 151]