ERICA monadelphia.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exertæ, longissimæ, attenuatæ in filamenta plana, compressa. Flores in ramulis, bini vel terni, terminales, cernui, in medio ramorum racemum formantes speciosissimum. Calyx duplex, coloratus; exterior triphyllus, foliolis late-ovatis, interior tetraphyllus, major. Corolla conica, sub-pollicaris, glabra, læte rubra; oris laciniis adpressis. Folia terna, obtusa, sub-tomentosa. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom, very long, and tapering into filaments which are flat, and pressed together. Flowers grow by twos and threes at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging down, forming a beautiful spike near the middle of the larger branches. Empalement double, and coloured, the outer one is three-leaved; the leaflets are broadly egg-shaped; the inner one is four-leaved, and larger than the outer. Blossom cone-shaped, near an inch long, smooth, and of a bright red colour; segments of the border are pressed to the threads. Leaves by threes, obtuse, and rather downy. Stem upright, a foot and a half high.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till December.