ERICA Hyacinthoides.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores sessiles, erecti, fastigiati, quaterni, conferti, terminales, fere pedunculati. Corolla ventricosa, incarnata, ore arctata; laciniis sub-cordatis, undulatis, expansis, maximis. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, crassiuscula, nitida. Caulis fruticosus, spithameus, erectus, ramosus. Ramuli frequentissimi, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers sit close in upright bunches by fours, on the ends of the branches with scarcely any footstalks. Blossom swelled out, flesh-coloured, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments are nearly heart-shaped, waved, spreading, and very large. Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, and shining. Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching. The smaller branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from June till August.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |