ERICA planifolia.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ exsertæ, basi bicornes. Flores sub apices ramorum, simplices, axillares. Pedunculi longi, colorati, glanduloso-pilosi. Corolla urceolata, purpurea: oris laciniis obtusis, erectis. Folia terna, spathulata, supra plana, subtus carinata: marginibus glandulosis, revolutis. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis. Rami et ramuli numerosi, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their base. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, singly, from the insertion of the leaves. Footstalks long, coloured, and glandularly hairy. Blossom pitcher-shaped, and purple: the segments obtuse, and upright. Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath: the margins are glandular, and rolled back. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. The large and small branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till November.
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