Leaves mostly by fours, linear, spreading and obtuse, nearly flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath: with glandular margins.
Flowers terminate the ends of the smaller branches in threes or sixes, footstalk, red: blossom bell-shaped, nodding, large and white: segments of border rolled back.
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed; furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
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1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement. 3. Chives and pointal. 4. A Chive, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |
This fine new species of Erica was raised from Cape seed last Autumn, 1827, and flowered the ensuing Summer for the first time at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting. We have named it after Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, a great admirer of this fine genus of plants. The only heath throughout this extensive family, to which it bears any resemblance, is the E. odorata. It is a handsome dwarf shrub, flowering freely during the months of May and June.[Pg 27]