ERICA odorata.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores numerosi, sub apices ramorum umbellati. Pedunculi flore triple longiores, viscosi, bracteis tribus adpressis. Corolla campanulata, magna, alba, viscosa, lucida, melliodora: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis. Folia sparsa, sæpe vero quaterna, linearia, margine glanduloso-denticulata, truncata: petiolis longis. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami simplices, longi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers numerous, growing in umbels at the ends of the branches. The footstalks thrice the length of the flowers, clammy, with three floral leaves pressed to them. Blossom bell-shaped, large, white, viscous, shining, and honey-scented: the segments of the border are rounded, and reflexed. Leaves scattered, but sometimes by fours, linear, appearing toothed by small glands at the edge, and seeming cut off at the ends. Footstalks long. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The branches are simple, and long.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf shown from the under side, magnified. 2. The empalement. 3. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. |