Heath, with beardless tips, just within the blossom: shaft without: flowers growing in a spike, crowded together near the end of the branch: blossoms club-shaped: branches very long: leaves by six or eight, upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, four feet high: branches mostly simple.
Leaves grow 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.
Flowers grow in crowded spikes near the end of the branches: blossoms club-shaped, and of a scarlet colour, between erect and spreading: footstalks coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of October till February.
REFERENCE.
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1. A Leaf from the base of the plant. 2. The Empalement. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. |
This new species of Erica was first raised at the Hammersmith nursery about the year 1815, and is named after R. Salisbury, Esq., a most able botanist, and Vice-president of the Linnæan Society. Our drawing was made from a plant four feet high, with only one flower-stem, and without any collateral branches.[Pg 223]