ERICA concinna.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in medio ramorum fasciculati, terminales, umbellati, umbellis 3—10-floris. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla sub-cylindrica, carnea, pubescens. Folia sub-sena, glabra, linearia, patentia. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, tripedalis, pyramidatus, glaber. Rami pauci, erecti. Ramuli verticillati, sub-simplices, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow bundled about the middle of the branches, terminal, in umbels of 3 to 10 flowers in each umbel. Footstalks very short. Blossom nearly cylindrical, flesh-coloured, and downy. Leaves mostly by sixes, smooth, linear, and spreading. Stem upright, shrubby, three feet high, pyramidical, smooth. Branches few, erect. Small branches whorled, nearly simple, and between upright and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from October till December.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |