ERICA Nivenia, longiflora.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornutæ, exertæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, pedunculis longissimis. Corolla purpurea, pyramidata, costata, fauce parum arctata: laciniis revolutis, obliquis. Folia terna, late-linearia, obtusa, margine pilis longissimis obsita, subtus sulcata, patentia. Suffrutex pygmæus, ramosus. Rami et ramuli divaricati, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, with very long footstalks. Blossom purple, of a pyramidal form, ribbed, a little narrowed at the mouth: the segments are oblique and revolute. Leaves by threes, broadly linear and blunt, and beset with long hairs at the edges, furrowed beneath, and spreading. It is a dwarf shrub, very branching. The large and small branches are straggling, and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. A blossom. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. |