Stem low: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and flexuose.
Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, upright, and pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminal, in crowded heads: blossom pitcher-shaped and flesh-coloured: the leaflets of the empalement are large, egg-shaped, pointed, coloured, and upright.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and green.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. A Flower. 3. The Empalement. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. 7. The Involucrum. |
This new species of Erica was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Rollinson, in the summer of 1812, from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven. Our figure represents the entire (and we believe unique) plant of six years growth. It is a handsome little shrub, in its foliage resembling the E. calycina, but in every other particular very different from any species we are yet acquainted with.[Pg 87]