ERICA ventricosa.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores terminales, numerosi, fastigiati, erecti, fasciculati. Pedunculi purpurei, basi bracteis binis parvis oppositis instructi. Corolla oblongo-ovata, apice arctata, alba, glabra, nitida: limbo æquali, sub-reflexo, in centro rubro. Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, basi recurvata, apice adscendentia, ciliata, nitida. Caulis fruticosus, semi-pedalis, teres, dumosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at their base, and within the blossom. Flowers terminal, numerous, level, upright, and in bunches. The footstalks are purple, and furnished with two small opposite floral leaves at their base. Blossom of an oblong ovate form, and narrowed towards the end, white, smooth, and shining: segments of the border equal, slightly reflexed, and red in the centre. Leaves by fours, linear, sharp-pointed, with a recurved base and an ascending point, ciliated, and shining. Stem shrubby, half a foot high, round, and bushy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till September.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |