ERICA Savilea.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores numerosi, simplices, axillares, in medio ramulorum, et sæpe terminales: pedunculis longissimis, coloratis. Corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, glabra, lucida: laciniis æqualibus, rotundis, patentibus, sub-reflexis. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Frutex pygmæus, elegans, ramosissimus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers are numerous, and grow singly from the axillæ of the leaves, about the middle of the smaller branches, and often terminate them. The footstalks are very long, and coloured. Blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, smooth, and shining: the segments of the border are equal, round, spreading, and nearly reflexed. Leaves by fours, linear and smooth, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. An elegant dwarf shrub, very branching.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till September.
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