Chapter III: Part 3

HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical and downy: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: branches numerous and downy.

LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and ascending.

FLOWERS grow mostly by fours, spreading, and terminal: blossoms an inch long, ovately cylindrical, villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of the border upright and spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from May till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

WE have adopted the specific title by which this Erica is well known in the gardens, although we should have preferred that of _tomentosa_, so decidedly descriptive of the downy character that pervades the whole plant, and which renders it difficult to preserve from the damps, which love to lodge on soft and downy pillows, too often to the destruction of their resting-place. Our figure represents an entire plant from the Nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the year 1816.

ERICA stellifera.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus subterminalibus: foliis quaternis: ramis verticillatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli verticillati.

FOLIA quaterna, lanceolata, pilosa, patentia.

FLORES subterminales, umbellati, erecti: pedunculi purpurei: calycis foliola lanceolata, basi bracteis binis oppositis instructa.

COROLLA inflata, ovata, apice arctata, incarnata: limbo æquali, patente, plerumque sexfido, albido.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Flos varietatis.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers nearly terminal: leaves by fours: branches whorled.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot or more high: the large and smaller branches grow in whorls.

LEAVES by fours, lance-shaped, hairy and spreading.

FLOWERS nearly terminal, in umbels, upright: footstalks purple: leaflets of the cup are lance-shaped, and furnished at the base with two opposite floral leaves.

BLOSSOM of an inflated form, ovate, narrowed towards the end, and flesh-coloured: segments of the border equal, spreading, mostly six-cleft and white.

SEED-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from March till August.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Flower of a variety.

This Erica is supposed to have been raised from seed of E. _ventricosa_, or _pregnans_, and is called the star-flowered variety from the mouth of the flowers having six divisions, and the specific character of the genus being only four-cleft. There are one or two flowers that still remain unaltered, just sufficient to proclaim the metamorphosis not quite complete. There is also another seminal variety with six-cleft petals, and we have given a flower of it among the dissections; this variation, however, can in no other respect be distinguished from the old ventricose species; but the one our figure represents differs in many other particulars, that well support its claim to a specific distinction.

ERICA suaveolens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis inclusis: floribus racemosis: foliis sparsis: caule fruticoso, erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus, ramosus: ramulis simplicibus.

FOLIA quina vel sena, numerosa, sparsa, linearia, acuta, adscendentia.

FLORES in apicibus ramorum, subterminales et racemosi: corolla cylindrica, odorata, pallide purpurea; oris laciniis recurvata.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla varietatis profundæ.

3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow in clusters: leaves scattered: stem shrubby and erect.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, upright, branching: the smaller branches simple.

LEAVES by fives or sixes, numerous, scattered, linear, pointed, and ascending.

FLOWERS at the ends of the branches, nearly terminal, and clustered: blossom cylindrical, sweet-scented, and of a pale purple colour: segments of the border recurved.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, and furrowed, furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement.

2. Blossom of a darker variety.

3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS delicate species of Erica was raised from seed in the summer of 1828, at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting. The only Heath to which it bears any resemblance is the E. densa, figured in Vol. III. Its specific title alone will recommend it as a most valuable addition to this extensive genus, as the odour of its blossoms is equal in fragrance to almost any Rose.

ERICA sulphurea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus cylindraceis, sessilibus: foliis quaternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis et ultra, erectus: rami sparsi, virgati, frequentes, villosi.

FOLIA quaterna, tenuia, obtusa, villosa, erecta.

FLORES sub-solitarii, sessiles, ramulos terminantes: corollis cylindraceo-clavatis, curvatis, villosis: limbo campanulato, revoluto.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii ad Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom: shaft without: flowers are cylindrical and sessile: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot or more high, upright: branches scattered, twiggy, numerous, and hairy.

LEAVES by fours, thin, blunt, villose, and upright.

FLOWERS grow singly, sessile, and terminate the smaller branches: blossoms cylindrically club-shaped, curved, and hairy: the segments of the border are bell-shaped, and rolled back.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till October.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS lively shrub was first raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1814. In its general character it very much resembles the E. _tubiflora_ and the E. _sordida_, distinct from each, and yet resembling both. It is a brilliant addition to the gay and extensive genus Erica.

ERICA taxifolia, _major_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus in umbellis terminalibus: corollis urceolatis: foliis ternis, trigonis, mucronatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, bipedalis: ramulis ternis, verticillatis.

FOLIA terna, rigida, trigona, mucronata, glauca, suprà plana, subtùs canaliculata: petiolis longis.

FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis erectis: pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus coloratis: corolla urceolata, carnea, calyce colorato fere tecta.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, cum antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; flowers terminate the branches in umbels: blossoms pitcher-shaped: leaves by threes, three-sided, and mucronated.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, two feet high; smaller branches grow by threes in whorls.

LEAVES by threes, harsh, three-sided, mucronated, glaucous, flat on the upper surface, and channelled beneath: footstalks long.

FLOWERS grow at the ends of the branches in upright umbels: footstalks coloured, with three coloured floral leaves: blossom pitcher-shaped, flesh-coloured, and almost covered by a coloured cup.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till December.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive, with a tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS fine plant resembles both the E. calycina major and the E. elegans, as well as the E. taxifolia, of which it is considered as a large variety: but from the crested character of the antheræ we are inclined to regard it as equally related to the two former species. It is well known to cultivators by the title we have adopted, and is said to have been first raised from Cape seed at the Hibbertian collection in 1806. Our drawing was made from a plant two feet high in the nursery of Mr. Williams.

ERICA Templea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus: cernuis, foliis lanceolatis, hirsutis: caulis fruticosa.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, ramis et ramulis, simplicibus, flexuosis.

FOLIA sena, lanceolata, curvata, patentia, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata: marginibus hirsutis.

FLORES in ultimis ramis terminales, in umbellis, cernuis; corolla sub cylindracea, ad basin inflata, subalbia, supra læte rubra et striatis, ore arcuata pilosa, laciniis revolutis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, pilosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Septembri in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium.

2. Idem infra lente aucta.

3. Stamen et pistillum, antherà unà lente auctâ.

4. Germen et pistillum stigmata lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and nodding: leaves lance-shaped and hirsute: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot high; the large and smaller branches simple and flexuose.

LEAVES by sixes, lance shaped, curved and spreading, flat on their upper surface and deeply furrowed beneath: margins harshly haired.

FLOWERS terminate the ends of the branches in umbels, nodding: blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled at the base, whitish, of a bright red colour above, and striped: narrowed at the mouth, and hairy segments rolled back.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of September till December.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf.

2. The same shewn from beneath, magnified.

3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica was first raised from seed at the Hammersmith Nursery, about the year 1820, and named by the late Mr. Lee after Lady Temple; it is a perfectly new and distinct species; the Erica’s cerinthoides and obbata are the only heaths to which it bears any resemblance. It is a handsome shrub low in stature, but easily distinguished from most of this fine tribe by its glaucous, hairy foliage.

ERICA tenuiflora carnea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis et ultra, fruticosus, flexuosus, filiformis, virgatus.

FOLIA quaterna, leviter tomentosa, linearia, brevia, acuta, supra plana, subtus sulcata.

FLORES ramos terminant, terni vel quaterni, plerumque adscendentes: corolla tubæformi, tenuissima, incarnata: laciniis oris æqualibus, cordatis, acutis, patentibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses æstivales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Antheræ et Pistillum.

3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot or more high, flexuose, thread-shaped, and twiggy.

LEAVES by fours, slightly downy, linear, short, pointed, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS terminate the branches by threes and fours, mostly ascending: blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and flesh-coloured: segments of the border equal, heart-shaped, pointed, and spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the summer months.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. The Chives and Pointal.

3. A Chive, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

Our figure represents a fine new species of Erica communicated from the extensive collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, where it was raised from seed in the summer of 1824. In its foliage it very much resembles the _E. tenuiflora alba_, figured in our third volume; the principal if not the only distinction is, when in bloom, the delicacy of its flowers, whose fine blush-colour gives it a decided preference over the white variety. It is considered as a variety through the medium of the _E. spuria_, a mule to which the genus is indebted for many fine variations.

ERICA Thunbergia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus globosis, campanulatis: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis filiformibus, virgatis.

FOLIA ternata, linearia, erecta, obtusa.

FLORES prope apices ramulorum umbellati: pedunculis longissimis: corolla tubo globoso luteo: limbo campanulato: laciniis cordatis, magnis, læte coccineis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Februarii ad Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Germen et Pistillum.

5. Anthera una lente aucta.

6. Flos plenus vel monstrosus.

7. Idem expansus.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers globular, and bell-shaped: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, upright: branches thread-shaped and twiggy.

LEAVES by threes, linear, upright, and blunt-ended.

FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches, in umbels: footstalks very long; blossom with a round tube of a yellow colour: mouth of the flower bell-shaped: segments heart-shaped, large, and of a bright scarlet.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, and furrowed, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from February till July.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Blossom.

3. Chives and Pointal.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal.

5. One tip magnified.

6. A double or monstrous Flower.

7. The same spread open.

THIS Erica is said to be first described by Professor Montin in the Upsal Transactions. It is a very interesting plant, combining beauty with novelty, and perfectly distinct from any other species at present known: it bears the name of that able botanist Thunberg, and was first raised at the Hammersmith Nursery from Cape seed brought by the late F. Masson, Collector to the Royal Gardens at Kew.

ERICA transparens.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS bipedalis, fruticosus, erectus.

FOLIA ternata, linearia, nitida, erecto-patentia: foliis majoribus flexuosis.

FLORES plerumque terni, cernui, ad ramorum extremitates: calyx duplex, crassus, adpressus: calyx exterior trifoliatus: corolla tubulosa, purpurea: oris laciniis viridi-albicantibus.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Aprilem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM two feet high, shrubby, and erect.

LEAVES by threes, linear, shining, erect, and spreading: the larger leaves are flexuose.

FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, drooping, at the ends of the branches: empalement double, thick, and pressed to the blossom: the exterior calyx three-leaved: blossom tubular and purple: the segments of the border of a greenish white.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till April.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THE Erica _transparens_ may be considered as one of the most beautiful of this fine tribe of plants. Its flowers equal in lustre the finest silk: their succession is so abundant, that we have found it in luxuriant bloom for six months. Our drawing was finished in the month of February 1820; and although the cold season checked the rich colour of its blossoms, yet was it (even so restrained) the most elegant ornament of the conservatory. It resembles the E. _discolor_ in many particulars, but is specifically distinct in having the anthers _muticæ_ instead of _aristatæ_.

ERICA triflora.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: foliis ternis; floribus ternis, globosis, albis: calyce magno.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus, ramosus: ramulis numerosis, plerumque ternis.

FOLIA terna, sub-trigona, acuta, lucida, patentia; petiolis longis, adpressis.

FLORES ramulos terminantes, terni, cernui: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis, calyci adpressis: foliola lato-ovata, carinata, alba, magna, corollæ albæ, globosæ, adpressa.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Ramus parvæ varietatis.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom: leaves by threes: flowers grow by threes, globular, and white: empalement large.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and a half high, upright and branching, with numerous small branches, mostly by threes.

LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, pointed, shining, and spreading: footstalks long, and pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches by threes, nodding: footstalks short, furnished with three floral leaves, and pressed to the cup: leaves of the empalement broadly ovate, keeled, white, large, and pressed to the blossom, which is white and globular.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of April till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Branch of a small variety.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

ALTHOUGH this Erica is well known to cultivators by the specific title of triflora, it could not be discriminated by that name, as more than half the genus at present known bear flowers by threes, and which its nomenclator was not aware of, being amongst the earliest importations from the Cape. Our figure was drawn from a plant in the collection of Messrs. Colville, in the summer of 1808.

ERICA vernix, _longiflora_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus ternis, tricoloribus, viscosis, urceolatis: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis; ramulis ternis, verticillatis.

FOLIA ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata: petiolis longis.

FLORES plerumque ternati, cernui, speciosi: pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus coloratis instructi. Corolla urceolata, glutinosissima, et lucida, colore saturate aurantio: laciniis oris erectis, saturate viridibus: calycis foliolis ovato-acutis, adpressis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Februarii in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen auctum.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom: flowers grow by threes, are three-coloured, clammy, and pitcher-shaped: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: the branches grow by threes in whorls.

LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath: footstalks long.

FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, nodding and showy: footstalks coloured, furnished with three coloured floral leaves: blossom pitcher-shaped, very glutinous, and shining, of a deep gold colour: segments of the border are upright, and of a deep green: the leaflets of the cup are ovate-pointed, and pressed to the blossom.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of February till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS elegant addition to the extensive family of the Ericæ was raised from Cape seed in the Summer of 1808, by Mr. Knight, Nurseryman, of the King’s Road, Chelsea. The difference between this plant and the E. vernix is easily discernible when they are in flower; but from the great similitude in their habit, stalks, and leaves, it is scarcely possible to distinguish them from each other when out of bloom.

ERICA vernex rubra.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus in medio ramorum: foliis ternatis: caule erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis et ultra: ramis plerumque ternis.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata.

FLORES ramulos ternatim plerumque terminant in medio ramorum, cernui: corolla subglobosa, ignea, glutinosissima, et lucida: limbo saturate viridi: laciniis æqualibus, erectis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses vernales, iterumque mensibus autumnalibus.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with crested tips within the blossom: flowers grow in the middle of the large branches: leaves by threes: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot or more high: branches mostly by threes.

LEAVES by threes, awl-shaped, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS grow in the middle of the large branches, and terminate the small branches mostly by threes, nodding: blossom nearly globular, of a fiery colour, very glutinous, and shining: border of a deep green: segments equal and upright.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers in the spring months, and again in autumn.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive, summit magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS Erica was first raised in the summer of 1823, and flowered in the spring of 1824, at Messrs. Rollinson’s nursery: it also bloomed again in the autumn of the same year, and is therefore doubly valuable. It is at present a scarce plant; and, although only a variation between E. vernex and E. ardens, is superior to either of them in beauty, and will, no doubt, be considered as one of the finest of the Ericæ family.

ERICA viridiflora.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris minute bicornutis, subexsertis: floribus sessilibus, nutantibus: foliis ternatis: caule ramoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, erectus, fruticosus: ramulis plerumque ternis.

FOLIA terna, glabra, sub-trigona, curvata, acuta.

FLORES terni in apicibus ramulorum, dependentes: pedunculi nulli: perianthium duplex, exteriori triphyllo: corolla viridis, viscosa, metulæ-flora: laciniis limbi erectis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii usque ad Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamina et pistillum.

3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with tips minutely two-horned just without the blossom: flowers sessile, and hanging down: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, upright, and shrubby: smaller branches mostly by threes.

LEAVES by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided, curved, and pointed.

FLOWERS grow by threes at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging down: footstalks none: cup double, the outer one three-leaved; blossom green, clammy, and skittle-shaped: segments of the border upright.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. Chives and Pointal.

3. A Chive, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS little green-flowered shrub at first sight bears a strong resemblance to the E. clavata, but on close inspection will be found to differ in almost every particular, except colour, from that species. We first observed the E. viridiflora, at the Hammersmith nursery, in 1820, at which period there was only one plant of it that had been raised from Cape seed: at present there are many other plants of it, that will, upon comparison, be found to differ from the E. clavata, not only in the exterior, but also in the interior of the blossom, as the anthers in this species are minutely bicornute, and in the other beardless.

ERICA undulata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus: corollis ampullaceis: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis: fruticosus rami virgati flexuosi.

FOLIA terna, linearia, brevia adscendentia verticillis, irregulariter confertis.

FLORES ramulos terminant plerumque terni: corolla uncialis ampullacea, costata, undulata, rubra: oris laciniis recurvatis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium.

2. Calyx.

3. Stamen, antherâ lente auctâ.

4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal: blossom flask-shaped: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot high: shrubby branches, twiggy and flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, linear, short and ascending, in irregular crowded whorles.

FLOWERS terminate the branches mostly by threes: blossom an inch long, flask-shaped, ribbed, waved, and red: segments of the border rolled back.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf.

2. The Empalement.

3. A Chive, tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

OUR drawing of this singular species of Erica was made from a plant at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, in the summer of 1828, said to be raised from seed of the E. translucens. Its contort flowers suggested a specific title, by which, in bloom, it could not fail to be recognised; the undulations continue the same from the early bud state, to the decay of the full-grown flower. The only Heath we ever met with of a similar and rather more contort character, was E. rugosa, (figured in Vol. 3,) which never ripened seed nor would propagate by cuttings, thus indicating an abortive novelty on which Nature reluctantly conferred the power of vegetation.

SYSTEMATICAL ARRANGEMENT

OF THE

LXXII ERICAS, OR HEATHS, CONTAINED IN

VOL. IV.

Taken from the shape of the tips, and the number of leaves which surround the stem in one whorl.

ANTHERÆ ARISTATÆ. TIPS BEARDED.

_Foliis ternis._ _Leaves by threes._

E. Comptoniana Compton H. -- grandinosa Hail-like -- nivalis Snowy white -- pygmæa Dwarf -- regerminans Regerminating -- Sainsburyana Sainsbury

_Foliis sparsis._ _Leaves scattered._

-- foliacea foliaceous -- ollula pot-shaped -- pedunculata pedunculated

_Foliis quaternis._ _Leaves by fours._

-- Bauera Bauer -- mollis soft -- Solandroides Solander-like -- splendens splendid

_Foliis senis._ _Leaves by sixes._

-- Imperialis Imperial

ANTHERÆ CRISTATÆ. TIPS CRESTED.

_Foliis ternis._ _Leaves by threes._

-- Andromedæflora, _alba_ Andromedæflora, _white_ -- droseroides, _minor_ Sun-dew-leaved, _small_ -- flagelliformis Whip-shaped -- pumila Dwarfish -- reflexa Reflexed -- rupestris, _rubra_ Rock-growing, _red_ -- taxifolia, _major_ Yew-leaved, _large_ -- triflora Three-flowered α vernex, _longiflora_ α Varnished, _long-flowered_ β --, _rubra_ β --, _red_

ANTHERÆ BICORNUTÆ. TIPS TWO-HORNED.

_Foliis ternis._ _Leaves by threes._

-- cruciformis cross-growing -- Infundibuliformis Funnel-shaped -- magnifica Magnificent -- rugosa wrinkled -- Shannonea Shannon -- viridiflora green-flowered

ANTHERÆ MUTICÆ. TIPS BEARDLESS.

_Foliis ternis._ _Leaves by threes._

E. aristata, _minor_ Bearded, _small_ H. -- Bandonia Bandon -- costata, _superba_ Ribbed, flowered, _superb_ -- crassifolia Thick-leaved -- dumosa Bushy -- glomerata Crowded -- Jasminiflora, _minor_ Jasmine, flowered, _small_ -- moschata Musk-scented -- peltata Shield-shaped -- perspicua Perspicuous -- Plukenetia, _albens_ Plukenet, _whitish_ -- serpyllifolia Wild thyme, _leaved_ -- Thunbergia Thunberg -- transparens Transparent -- undulata Waved

_Foliis quaternis._ _Leaves by fours._

-- Beaumontia Beaumont -- colorans Discoloured -- Coventrya Coventry -- exudans Exuding -- Lawsonia Lawson -- Linnæa, _superba_ Linnæa, _superb_ -- minutæflora Minute-leaved -- mirabilis Admirable -- mundula Delicate -- pellucida, _rubra_ Pellucid, _red_ -- prestans Excellent -- radiata, _discolor_ Radiated, _two-coloured_ -- refulgens Refulgent -- ruber calyx Red-cupped -- Russeliana Russel -- stellifera Star-like -- sulphurea Sulphur-coloured -- tenuiflora, _carnea_ Slender-flowered, _flesh-coloured_

_Foliis sparsis._ _Leaves scattered._

-- quadrangularis Four-angled

_Foliis quinis._ _Leaves by fives._

-- suaveolens Sweet-scented -- Echiflora, _purpurea_ Echium-flowered, _purple_

_Foliis senis._ _Leaves by sixes._

-- argentiflora Silver-flowered -- exsurgens, _hybrida_ Exsurgent, _hybrid_ -- formosa, _bicolor_ Handsome, _two-coloured_ -- recurvata Recurved -- Salisburia Salisbury -- Templea Temple

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

TO THE

FIGURES IN VOL. IV.

217. Erica Andromedæflora, _alba_.

218. ---- argentiflora.

219. ---- aristata, _minor_.

220. ---- Bandonia.

221. ---- Bauera.

222. ---- Beaumontia.

223. ---- colorans.

224. ---- Comptoniana.

225. ---- costata, _superba_.

226. ---- Coventrya.

227. ---- crassifolia.

228. ---- cruciformis.

229. ---- droseroides, _minor_.

230. ---- dumosa.

231. ---- echiflora, _purpurea_.

232. ---- exsurgens, _hybrida_.

233. ---- exudans.

234. ---- flagelliformis.

235. ---- foliacea.

236. ---- formosa, _bicolor_.

237. ---- glomerata.

238. ---- grandinosa.

239. ---- Imperialis.

240. ---- infundibuliformis.

241. ---- Jasminiflora, _minor_.

242. ---- Lawsonia.

243. ---- Linnæa, _superba_.

244. ---- magnifica.

245. ---- minutæflora.

246. ---- mirabilis.

247. ---- mollis.

248. ---- moschata.

249. ---- mundula.

250. ---- nivalis.

251. ---- Ollula.

252. ---- pedunculata.

253. ---- pellucida, _rubra_.

254. ---- peltata.

255. ---- perspicua.

256. ---- Plukenetia, _albens_.

257. ---- præstans.

258. ---- pumila.

259. ---- pygmæa.

260. ---- quadrangularis.

261. ---- radiata, _discolor_.

262. ---- recurvata.

263. ---- reflexa.

264. ---- refulgens.

265. ---- regerminans.

266. ---- ruber-calyx.

267. ---- rugosa.

268. ---- rupestris, _rubra_.

269. ---- Russeliana.

270. ---- Sainsburyana.

271. ---- Salisburia.

272. ---- serpyllifolia.

273. ---- Shannonea.

274. ---- Solandroides.

275. ---- splendens.

276. ---- stellifera.

277. ---- suaveolens.

278. ---- sulphurea.

279. ---- taxifolia, _major_.

280. ---- Templea.

281. ---- tenuiflora, _carnea_.

282. ---- Thunbergia.

283. ---- transparens.

284. ---- triflora.

285. ---- vernix, _longiflora_.

286. ---- vernix, _rubra_.

287. ---- viridiflora.

288. ---- undulata.