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* ERICA chloroloma 



Green-tipped Heath. 



OCTANDRIA MOUOGYH^IA. 



Nat. ord. ERiCACEiE. 



ERICA^ Bot. Reg. vol. 1. fol. 6. 



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E. chloroloma (Intestiniflora) ; inflorescentia terminali, antheris aristatis, foliis 

 quinis linearibus appressis scabro-pubescentibus, ramls ramulisque pilosis, 

 coroUis cylindricis glabris apice constrictis: limbi laciniis erectis rotundatis, 

 ovario glabro. 



1 am obliged to Mr. John Young, Nurseryman, Taunton, 

 for a specimen of this pretty heath, which flowered in his 

 collection in November 1836, at which time the drawing was 



made. 



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It forms an erect and graceful bush, with reddish brown 

 downy branches. The leaves grow in fives, and are nearly 

 erect, in which respect, as well as others, it differs from the 

 E. carinata figured in the Botanical Cabinet, tab. 1071 ; they 

 are rough, with a short pubescence. The beautiful crimson 

 and green flowers grow in clusters at the erids of the young 

 shoots, or little downy nodding pedicels, which bear in their 

 middle a pair of small narrow bractlets. The calyx is green 

 and leafy, and has four narrow erect obtuse smooth seg- 

 ments. The corolla is six lines long, cylindrical, bright 

 crimson, contracted below the point, which is a clear bright 

 green. The anthers have each a short, smooth awn at the 

 base, and are just enclosed within the tube of the corolla. 

 The ovary is smooth, and produced at the very base into 

 eight short green tubercles. 



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• See Bot. Reg. fol. 169S. 



