ERICA coronata.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores plures, terminales, simpliciter verticillati, conferti, viscosi. Pedunculi longi, curvati. Corolla cylindrico-clavata, pollicaris, nitida, ima parte profunde carnea, apice viridi, ore arctata; laciniis rectis. Folia octona, linearia, obtusa, supra scabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petiolos longos capillares. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, tripedalis. Rami simplices, longi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. The flowers are numerous, terminating the branches in simple whorls, crowded together, and clammy. The footstalks are long, and curved. Blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, and shining; the lower part of a strong flesh colour, the end green; compressed at the mouth, whose segments are straight. Leaves grow by eights, linear, blunt-ended, rough on the upper surface, furrowed beneath, and tapering into long hair-like footstalks. Stem shrubby, upright, three feet high. Branches simple and long.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till April.