ERICA latifolia.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ. Flores in medio ramorum, spicati, umbellati sub-terni ex axillis foliorum, cernui. Corolla sub-globosa, glabra, læte-rubra, ore arctata, limbo erecto, minuto. Folia terna, latissima, acuminate ovata, supra pilis vestita, subtus albida, margine revoluta. Caulis fruticosus, flexuosus, pedalis, ramosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers in the middle of the branches, in spikes, from the insertion of the leaves in umbels of threes, hanging down. Blossom nearly globular, smooth, and of a bright red, mouth narrowed, border upright and small. Leaves by threes, very broad, pointedly egg-shaped, clothed on the upper surface with hairs, whitish beneath, and rolled back at the edge. Stem shrubby, flexuose, a foot high, and branching.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.
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