Part 2

FOLIA quaterna, linearia obtusa, glabra, supra plana, subtus sulcata.

FLORES quaterni, cruciformes: ramulis plerumque terminalibus: corolla urceolata, aurantia, lucida: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junio ad Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unicum lente auctum.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

5. Flores varietatum duarum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned, within the blossom: flowers grow by fours, tubular, short and linear: stem shrubby and upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, and shrubby: the smaller branches numerous and crowded.

LEAVES by fours, linear obtuse, and smooth, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS grow by fours, cross-shaped, mostly terminating the smaller branches: blossom jar-shaped, of a gold colour, and shining: segments of the border rounded and reflexed.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

5. Flowers of two varieties.

OUR drawing of this handsome little Erica was made at the nursery of Mr. Lee in the summer of 1819, where it had been recently raised from seed, with two others of a similar description too nearly allied to require a separate figure. We have therefore added a flower of each, and hardly knew to which of the three plants to give the preference. But as the specific title cruciformis was given to them, we selected that for our figure whose inflorescence bore out the name with the most uniformity.

ERICA droseroides, _minor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, cernuis: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso, erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS spithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.

FOLIA terna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis, micantibus.

FLORES in 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.

1. Folii pars inferior lente aucta.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom; flowers terminal and nodding; leaves by threes; stem shrubby and upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a span high and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.

LEAVES by threes, linear and blunt, with shining glandular hairs on the margins.

FLOWERS grow 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.

1. The under side of a Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Chive magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

OUR figure 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.

ERICA dumosa.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, exertis: floribus terminalibus, pendulis: pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus: ramis numerosis, filiformibus.

FOLIA ternata, ovata, hispida, patentia, margine revoluta, subtus glauca.

FLORES terminales in umbellis: corolla pendula, urceolata, purpurea: pedunculis patentibus, longissimis, tenuibus.

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

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom: flowers terminal and pendulous: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, shrubby: branches numerous and thread-shaped.

LEAVES by threes, ovate, hispid, and spreading, rolled back at the edges, and glaucous beneath.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels: blossom pendulous, pitcher-shaped, and purple: footstalks spreading, very long, and slender.

SEED-BUD turban-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.

1. A leaf magnified.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THE Erica _dumosa_ is 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 called _longipedunculata_, 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 of _dumosa_. 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.

ERICA Echiflora, _purpurea_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus, tubulosis et costatis: foliis linearis confertis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, sesquipedalis: ramis et ramulis flexuosis.

FOLIA irregulariter verticillati, quina vel sena, linearia: undulata, patentia.

FLORES in umbellis confertis, horizontales: corolla tubulosa, purpurea, brevis, inflata, costata: laciniis patentibus cordatis, pedunculi brevi.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum: ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Flos.

4. Stamen et pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

6. Germen auctum.

7. Flos varietas.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed; leaves linear and crowded: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot and half high: the large and smaller branches flexuose.

LEAVES grow in irregular whorls, of fives and sixes: waved and spreading.

FLOWERS grow in umbels, crowded and horizontal: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, and ribbed: segments of the border heart-shaped and spreading: footstalks short.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the Autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Flower.

4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

6. Seed-bud magnified.

7. Flower of a variety.

THIS handsome 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.

ERICA exsurgens hybrida.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticillatis: foliis senis: caule erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis, simplicibus.

FOLIA sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia: pedunculi longissimi.

FLORES in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti, verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla clavata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea: oris laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis.

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

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple.

LEAVES by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long.

FLOWERS grow 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-BUD turban-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.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive, summit magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS Erica 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.

ERICA exudans.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; stylo sub-exerto: floribus cylindraceis, terminalibus: foliis quaternis, glandulosis, viscosis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis erectis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glandulosa, viscosa, erecto-patentia.

FLORES plerumque quaterni, cernui, terminales; corollis cylindraceis, costatis, luteolo-rubris, sub-uncialibus, arcuatis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Germen lente auctum.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips, just within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical, and terminating the branches: leaves by fours, glandular, and clammy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, shrubby, with numerous small upright branches.

LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, viscous, and between erect and spreading.

FLOWERS mostly by fours, nodding, and terminal: blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till November.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. Seed-bud magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica bears the compound appearance of the E. _droseroides_ and 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.

ERICA flagelliformis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in umbellis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS virgatus, pedalis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosissimi.

FOLIA ternata, erecta, crassa, obtusa, cauli adpressa.

FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis; pedunculi carnei: perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis spathulatis, acuminatis, carneis: corolla urceolata, saturate carnea, ad basin pallida: oris laciniis patentibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

6. Ramus varietatis parvæ.

7. Ramus varietatis minoris erectæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves by threes; branches twiggy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM twiggy, a foot high; the large and smaller branches are thread-shaped, and very flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, straight, thick, obtuse, and pressed to the stem.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

6. Branch of a small variety.

7. Branch of a smaller upright variety.

THIS Erica 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. _calycina_ than 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.

ERICA foliacea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis; floribus ramulos terminantibus, quaternis: foliis sparsis: caule erecto: ramis et ramulis foliis tectis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, adscendentibus: ramulis perbrevibus.

FOLIA sparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linearia, obtusa.

FLORES ramulos terminant, quaterni, subsessiles: corolla subcylindracea, curvata, cernuo-patente, subpollicari, flava, et transparente.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum lente auctum.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with 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.

STEM a foot high, shrubby: the larger branches long and ascending: the smaller ones very short.

LEAVES scattered, numerous, ascending, linear, and obtuse.

FLOWERS grow 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.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa: and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, the specific title of _depressa erecta_ was 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.

ERICA formosa, _bicolor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; floribus sub apices ramorum verticillatis; corollis clavatis, bicoloratis; foliis sparsis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis vel bipedalis, erectus; rami pauci.

FOLIA subsena, linearia, obtusa, patentia, parùm curvata; petiolis longis.

FLORES sub 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.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, cum antherâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Flos varietatis trivialis.

5. Flos varietatis obscurè coloratæ.

6. Flos varietatis sordidè coloratæ.

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.

STEM a foot and a half or two feet high, upright; branches few.

LEAVES nearly by sixes, linear, blunt, spreading, and slightly curved; footstalks long.

FLOWERS grow 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-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 July till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive with a tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Flower of a slight variety.

5. Flower of a dull-coloured variety.

6. Flower of a dirty-coloured variety.

THE versatility 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.

ERICA glomerata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in capitibus aggregatis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosi.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, erecta, cauli adpressa.

FLORES terminales, capitibus aggregatis: corolla urceolata, incarnata: calycis foliola magna, ovata, acuminata, colorata, erecta.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, viride.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Flos.

3. Calyx.

4. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

6. Germen lente auctum.

7. Involucrum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms: flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads: leaves by threes: branches twiggy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, awl-shaped, upright, and pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS terminal, in crowded heads: blossom pitcher-shaped and flesh-coloured: the leaflets of the empalement are large, egg-shaped, pointed, coloured, and upright.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and green.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf magnified.

2. A Flower.

3. The Empalement.

4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

6. Seed-bud magnified.

7. The Involucrum.

THIS new 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.

ERICA grandinosa.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, virgatus, flexuosus, fruticosus: ramulis patentibus.

FOLIA terna, sub-trigona, obtusa, brevia, crassiuscula.

FLORES in apicibus ramulorum subterni, cernui: corolla campanulata, parva, albida, et costata: laciniis oris revolutis: pedunculus pallide carneus: calyx duplex, exteriori trifoliato, angustiori.

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

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii usque ad Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, twiggy, flexuous, and shrubby: smaller branches spreading.

LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, obtuse, short, and thickish.

FLOWERS grow 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-BUD turban-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.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Chive, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

THE Erica 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.

ERICA Imperialis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.