CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, cernuis: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso, erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulisspithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.
Foliaterna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis, micantibus.
Floresin umbellis terminalibus, cernui: corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, costata, viscosa: ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo: pedunculi longissimi pilis glandulosis tecti.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips within the blossom; flowers terminal and nodding; leaves by threes; stem shrubby and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema span high and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.
Leavesby threes, linear and blunt, with shining glandular hairs on the margins.
Flowersgrow in terminal umbels, nodding: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, ribbed and clammy: the mouth is oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour: footstalks very long, and covered with glandular hairs.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
REFERENCE.
Ourfigure represents an entire plant from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from seed in the autumn of 1820, after an absence of fifteen years; during which period we believe it has been lost to every collection we are acquainted with. It can only be retained by care and attention to preserve it from damp, of which it is much more susceptible than the generality of this extended genus.[Pg 55]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, exertis: floribus terminalibus, pendulis: pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulishumilis, fruticosus: ramis numerosis, filiformibus.
Foliaternata, ovata, hispida, patentia, margine revoluta, subtus glauca.
Floresterminales in umbellis: corolla pendula, urceolata, purpurea: pedunculis patentibus, longissimis, tenuibus.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, tomentosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossom: flowers terminal and pendulous: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemlow, shrubby: branches numerous and thread-shaped.
Leavesby threes, ovate, hispid, and spreading, rolled back at the edges, and glaucous beneath.
Flowersterminate the branches in umbels: blossom pendulous, pitcher-shaped, and purple: footstalks spreading, very long, and slender.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, downy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till November.
REFERENCE.
TheEricadumosais one of those few species whose rude exterior differs from the leading feature of neatness and uniformity so prevalent throughout this extensive family of plants. It is a dwarf shrub, with crowded irregular branches and coarse foliage, but possessing bright purple flowers on very long peduncles. By some cultivators it is calledlongipedunculata, a little more descriptive than specific, and which might be confounded with the E.pedunculata. But as a low bushy shrub it may easily be recognised by the unoccupied title ofdumosa. Our figure represents an entire plant raised from seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1815. It requires rather more attention than usual, to prevent the long slender footstalks of the flowers from being too powerfully influenced by the atmosphere, which sometimes gives them a very disordered appearance.[Pg 59]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus, tubulosis et costatis: foliis linearis confertis: caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulisfruticosus, sesquipedalis: ramis et ramulis flexuosis.
Foliairregulariter verticillati, quina vel sena, linearia: undulata, patentia.
Floresin umbellis confertis, horizontales: corolla tubulosa, purpurea, brevis, inflata, costata: laciniis patentibus cordatis, pedunculi brevi.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum: ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Autumnales.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed; leaves linear and crowded: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemshrubby, a foot and half high: the large and smaller branches flexuose.
Leavesgrow in irregular whorls, of fives and sixes: waved and spreading.
Flowersgrow in umbels, crowded and horizontal: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, and ribbed: segments of the border heart-shaped and spreading: footstalks short.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the Autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
Thishandsome shrub differs not only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured in Vol. 3, but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears numerous bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches; there are two slight varieties, one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of which is given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection.[Pg 63]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ericaantheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticillatis: foliis senis: caule erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulissesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis, simplicibus.
Foliasena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia: pedunculi longissimi.
Floresin medio ramorum, verticillati, recti, verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla clavata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea: oris laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret per menses autumnales.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple.
Leavesby sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long.
Flowersgrow about the middle of the branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured: segments of the mouth large, revolute, and nearly white within.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers during the autumnal months.
REFERENCE.
ThisErica resembles the E. exsurgens in its flowering, with some affinity in the foliage to the E. vestita alba, and is considered an hybrid production between those species.
Our figure was taken from a plant, four years old, at the nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting, in the autumn of 1824, where it was first raised from seed, and is at present regarded as a perfectly new and scarce Heath.[Pg 67]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; stylo sub-exerto: floribus cylindraceis, terminalibus: foliis quaternis, glandulosis, viscosis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulissesquipedalis, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis erectis.
Foliaquaterna, linearia, obtusa, glandulosa, viscosa, erecto-patentia.
Floresplerumque quaterni, cernui, terminales; corollis cylindraceis, costatis, luteolo-rubris, sub-uncialibus, arcuatis.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith bearded tips, just within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical, and terminating the branches: leaves by fours, glandular, and clammy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema foot and half high, shrubby, with numerous small upright branches.
Leavesby fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, viscous, and between erect and spreading.
Flowersmostly by fours, nodding, and terminal: blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from July till November.
REFERENCE.
ThisErica bears the compound appearance of the E.droseroidesand E.costata; resembling the latter in its flowers, and the former in its foliage, which is covered with glands, from which a thin and viscous juice exudes. Our drawing of it was first taken from plants in the Nursery of Mr. Buchanan at Camberwell, as long back as 1805; since that time it has been so nearly lost, that it was shown to us as a novelty in 1815; and we should not be surprised if it again becomes an absentee, as the few Ericas that possess glands on the foliage are difficult to preserve either in beauty or health, being subject to the adhesion of all sorts of dust, which obscuring their verdure, at the same time obstructs that perspiration, which being so very apparent, indicates it to be indispensably requisite to the health of the plant.[Pg 71]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in umbellis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulisvirgatus, pedalis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosissimi.
Foliaternata, erecta, crassa, obtusa, cauli adpressa.
Floresramos terminant in umbellis; pedunculi carnei: perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis spathulatis, acuminatis, carneis: corolla urceolata, saturate carnea, ad basin pallida: oris laciniis patentibus.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junii in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips, within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves by threes; branches twiggy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemtwiggy, a foot high; the large and smaller branches are thread-shaped, and very flexuose.
Leavesby threes, straight, thick, obtuse, and pressed to the stem.
Flowersterminate the branches in umbels; footstalks flesh-coloured: empalement four-leaved; leaflets spathula-shaped, pointed, and flesh-coloured: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a deep flesh-colour, but paler at the base: segments of the border spreading.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till August.
REFERENCE.
ThisErica is figured from a drawing made in the gardens of G. Hibbert, Esq. as long back as the summer of 1806, where it was raised from Cape seed amongst many others, and considered as nearer allied to the E.calycinathan any other species. There was only one more plant of it, and that was of a very straggling growth, hanging down over the sides of the pot in all directions, making a very picturesque appearance, and to which we should certainly have given the preference, if we had not considered it more a casualty of culture than as a permanent character,—which we had not the opportunity of ascertaining, as both the plants died in the autumn,—we apprehend, from an excessive inflorescence,—and have never since re-appeared. Among the dissections we have given branches of two small seminal varieties, almost distinct enough to require a separate figure.[Pg 75]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ericaantheris aristatis, inclusis; floribus ramulos terminantibus, quaternis: foliis sparsis: caule erecto: ramis et ramulis foliis tectis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulispedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, adscendentibus: ramulis perbrevibus.
Foliasparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linearia, obtusa.
Floresramulos terminant, quaterni, subsessiles: corolla subcylindracea, curvata, cernuo-patente, subpollicari, flava, et transparente.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours: leaves scattered; stem upright: the large and smaller branches covered with leaves.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema foot high, shrubby: the larger branches long and ascending: the smaller ones very short.
Leavesscattered, numerous, ascending, linear, and obtuse.
Flowersgrow from the ends of the smaller branches by fours, and nearly sessile: blossom nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading and nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and transparent.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till October.
REFERENCE.
ThisErica in its flower resembles the E. depressa: and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, the specific title ofdepressa erectawas given to it, by which it is generally known in most collections;—but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacea, an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated either in or out of bloom.
Our figure was made from the collection of Mr. Lee, in the summer of 1822.[Pg 79]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; floribus sub apices ramorum verticillatis; corollis clavatis, bicoloratis; foliis sparsis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulissesquipedalis vel bipedalis, erectus; rami pauci.
Foliasubsena, linearia, obtusa, patentia, parùm curvata; petiolis longis.
Floressub apices ramorum verticillati, axillares, et horizontales; pedunculis brevibus bracteis tribus instructis; corolla clavata, longa, parùm curvata, ad basin rubra, ad apicem flava; calycis foliolis subovatis, adpressis.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, just within the blossom; flowers grow in whorls near the ends of the branches; blossom club-shaped, and two-coloured; leaves scattered.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema foot and a half or two feet high, upright; branches few.
Leavesnearly by sixes, linear, blunt, spreading, and slightly curved; footstalks long.
Flowersgrow near the ends of the branches in whorls, from the axillæ of the leaves, in a horizontal direction; peduncles short, and furnished with three floral leaves; blossom club-shaped, long, and slightly curved, red at the base, and yellow at the end; the leaflets of the cup are nearly ovate, and pressed to the blossom.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
REFERENCE.
Theversatility that pervades this genus is particularly prominent in this species, which appears allied to the E. formosa, grandiflora, exsurgens, pinea, and also resembles in its general appearance many of that beautiful section of the Erica family well known by the specific appellation of vestita. Our figure was drawn, in the summer of 1807, from plants in the nursery of Mr. Rollinson. The flowers given with the dissections are mere florescent variations, no distinction being observable in the plants when out of bloom; we have therefore deemed it sufficient to represent only a flower of each of them.[Pg 83]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in capitibus aggregatis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulishumilis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosi.
Foliaternata, subulata, erecta, cauli adpressa.
Floresterminales, capitibus aggregatis: corolla urceolata, incarnata: calycis foliola magna, ovata, acuminata, colorata, erecta.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, viride.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Martii in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossoms: flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads: leaves by threes: branches twiggy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemlow: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and flexuose.
Leavesby threes, awl-shaped, upright, and pressed to the stem.
Flowersterminal, in crowded heads: blossom pitcher-shaped and flesh-coloured: the leaflets of the empalement are large, egg-shaped, pointed, coloured, and upright.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, and green.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.
REFERENCE.
Thisnew species of Erica was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Rollinson, in the summer of 1812, from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven. Our figure represents the entire (and we believe unique) plant of six years growth. It is a handsome little shrub, in its foliage resembling the E.calycina, but in every other particular very different from any species we are yet acquainted with.[Pg 87]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ericaantheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulispedalis, virgatus, flexuosus, fruticosus: ramulis patentibus.
Foliaterna, sub-trigona, obtusa, brevia, crassiuscula.
Floresin apicibus ramulorum subterni, cernui: corolla campanulata, parva, albida, et costata: laciniis oris revolutis: pedunculus pallide carneus: calyx duplex, exteriori trifoliato, angustiori.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maii usque ad Julium.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
Stema foot high, twiggy, flexuous, and shrubby: smaller branches spreading.
Leavesby threes, nearly three-sided, obtuse, short, and thickish.
Flowersgrow from the ends of the small branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom bell-shaped, small, white, and ribbed: segments of the mouth rolled back: peduncle of a pale flesh-colour: cup double, the outer one three-leaved, and narrower.
Seed-budturban-shaped, furrowed, villose, 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.
TheErica grandinosa was sent us in the month of June 1824, amongst many other new species, by Mr. Sinclair, from the splendid collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. This is one of those white-flowered Ericas so difficult to give a relief upon paper: it is a delicate little Heath, and although deficient in speciosity, claims attention as a perfectly new species, very distinct from any other hitherto figured.[Pg 91]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ericaantheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, speciosissimis: foliis tremulis, spiraliter sparsis, truncatis: ramis simplicibus.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulisbipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis simplicibus, longis.
Foliaplerumque sena, linearia, obtusa, attenuata in petiolos longos capillares.
Floresramos terminant in verticillis simplicibus, patentibus, viscosis: pedunculis longis, recurvatis: corolla cylindrico-clavata, longa: ima parte profunde carnea, apice viridi, ore arctata, laciniis rectis.
Germenclavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, subinclusus. Stigma peltatum, concavum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Novembri ad Januarium.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and showy: leaves tremulous, spirally scattered, appearing cut off at the ends: branches simple.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemtwo feet high, upright: the large and small branches simple and long.
Leavesmostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and tapering into long hair-like footstalks.
Flowersterminate the branches in simple whorls, spreading and clammy: footstalks long and recurved: blossom cylindrically club-shaped and long: the lower part of a deep flesh-colour, the end green, compressed at the mouth, whose segments are straight.
Seed-budclub-shaped and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom: summit shield-shaped and hollow.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of November till January.
REFERENCE.
Ourfigure represents a specimen from the conservatory of the Earl of Northampton (in November 1818), the only plant we could find in bloom for the last ten years. It is certainly less hardy than many of this fine tribe, and requires a clearer atmosphere than is to be met with in the vicinity of so large a city as London. It was first raised from Cape seed in the collection of G. Hibbert, Esq. in 1806.[Pg 95]
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CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Ericaantheris superne bicornibus, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, quaternis: longis tenuis foliis ternis: caulis gracilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulisfruticosus, debilis, pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli filiformes virgati.
Foliaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra, erecto, patentia.
Floresad apices ramulorum quaterni, pedunculis brevissimis, bracteis: tribus subulatis instructis: corollis tubulosis longis tenuis rubris: oris laciniis equalis patentes superne albis.
Germentiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti in Novembrem.
REFERENTIA.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heathwith tips two-horned on the upper part, within the blossom: flowers terminal, grow by fours, long and slender: leaves by threes: stem slender.
DESCRIPTION.
Stemshrubby, weak, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.
Leavesby threes, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, and spreading.
Flowersgrows by fours at the ends of the small branches: footstalks very short, and furnished with three awl-shaped floral leaves: blossoms tubular, long, slender, and of a red colour: segments of the border spreading, equal and white on the upper surface.
Seed-budturban shaped, and furrowed, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from August till November.
REFERENCE.
Thisfine species of Erica was raised from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven: it bears a considerable resemblance to the E. tenuiflora, but differs in the specific character of its antheræ from all those we have hitherto figured: for when they are bearded, crested, or two-horned, those appendages have invariably been at the base, but in this one instance, they are almost at the top of the anthers, instead of the bottom.
It is a plant that flowers freely, and during the autumnal months makes a most elegant appearance.[Pg 99]
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