Flowers nearly terminate the branches, making a long close bunch: blossom tubularly bell-shaped, transparent, white at first, and then dying off of a deep rose colour.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till August.
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1. Calyx. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. |
This Erica may be considered as an elegant but distinct variety of the E. Linnæa. It is well known by the specific title of colorans, in reference to the rich red colour the flowers acquire as the blossoms decay, which gives a very singular motley appearance to the plant. It continues a long time in successive bloom; and requires a dry airy situation in the green-house, to protect its small crowded downy foliage from the atmospheric damps too prevalent in this climate.[Pg 31]