ERICA Patersonia, major.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores plures, e medio caulis inter folia porrecti. Pedunculi fere nulli. Perianthium duplex. Corolla cylindrica, magna, glabra, lutea, ore arctata, limbo quadrifido, reflexo. Folia quaterna, linearia, incurvata, acuta, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, erectus, basi ramosus, dein spicam simplicissimam pyramidatam formans, ramulis brevibus vestitam.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, and within the blossom. Flowers numerous, growing about the middle of the stem straight out from amongst the leaves, with scarcely any foot-stalks. Empalement double. Blossom cylindrical, large, and smooth, of a yellow colour, narrowed at the mouth, with a four-lobed, reflexed border. Leaves by fours, linear, incurved, sharp-pointed, and smooth. Stem, shrubby, a foot or more high, upright, branching at the base, then forming a simple pyramidal spike covered by short branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
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