ERICA suaveolens.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores racemosi, subterminales. Corolla cylindrica, pallide purpurea, odorata: oris laciniis recurvatis. Folia quina vel sena linearia, numerosa, plerumque adscendentia. Caulis sesquipedalis. Rami et ramuli erecti, flexuosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in clusters, nearly terminal. Blossom cylindrical, of a pale purple colour, and sweet-scented; segments of the border recurved. Leaves by fives or sixes, linear, numerous, and mostly ascending. Stem a foot and a half high. The large and smaller branches upright and flexuose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. Empalement. 2. Blossom of a darker variety. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |