ERICA longiflora.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exsertæ. Flores terminales, bini vel quaterni, patentes. Pedunculi breves. Corolla longissima, curvata, clavata, lucida, aurantia: oris laciniis expansis. Folia quaterna et quina, linearia, obtusa, glabra, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis: ramulis brevibus, numerosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches from two to four, spreading. Footstalks short. Blossom very long, curved, club-shaped, shining, and of a gold colour: segments of the border spreading. Leaves by fours and fives, linear, obtuse, smooth, and furrowed beneath. Stem shrubby, two feet high. The small branches are short, and numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |