Part 4

ERICA barbata minor.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, subexsertæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, cernui. Corolla urceolata, alba, pilosa, viscosa, calyce spathulato, glanduloso-piloso. Pedanculi colorati. Folia quaterna, barbata, ovata, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis. Rami filiformes, laxi, patentes.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy and viscous, with the cup spathula-shaped, and glandularly hairy. Footstalks coloured. Leaves by fours, bearded, ovate and spreading. Stem shrubby, two feet high. Branches thread-shaped, limber and spreading.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from August till March.

REFERENCE.

1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.

ERICA Bruinades.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ. Flores urceolati, pubescentes, albi, in toto tecti calyce lanato; calycis foliolis ovatis, carneis. Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, margine pilis longis hirta. Caulis filiformis, flexuosus. Ramuli capillares, frequentes, tomentosi.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers pitcher-shaped, downy and white, and covered totally by a woolly cup; the leaflets of the cup are egg-shaped, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by threes, linear and blunt, the edges covered with long hairs. Stem thread-shaped, very flexible. The smaller branches hair-like, numerous and downy.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from February till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The empalement. 2. The blossom. 3. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.

ERICA caffra.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Corolla campanulata, minuta, cernua, odoratissima, alba. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami erecti. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, sub-ciliata, patentia.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips bearded, within the blossom, shaft without. Blossoms bell-shaped, small, nodding, sweet-scented, and white. Stem shrubby, grows a foot high. The branches are upright. Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, a little hairy, and spreading.

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Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

In bloom from October till February.