Flowers terminate the smaller branches by threes, nodding: footstalks short, furnished with three floral leaves, and pressed to the cup: leaves of the empalement broadly ovate, keeled, white, large, and pressed to the blossom, which is white and globular.
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 April till July.
REFERENCE.
|
1. A Branch of a small variety. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. |
Although this Erica is well known to cultivators by the specific title of triflora, it could not be discriminated by that name, as more than half the genus at present known bear flowers by threes, and which its nomenclator was not aware of, being amongst the earliest importations from the Cape. Our figure was drawn from a plant in the collection of Messrs. Colville, in the summer of 1808.[Pg 275]