ERICA exudans 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis: stylo sub- 
exerto : floribus cylindraceis, terminalibus: foliis 
quaternis, glandulosis, viscosis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis sesquipedalis, fruticosus, ramulis nu- 
merosis erectis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glandulosa, 
viscosa, erecto-patentia. 
Flores plerumquequaterni, cernui, terminales: 
corollis cylindraceis, costatis, luteolo-rubris, sub- 
uncialibus, arcuatis. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, ad basin necta- 
riis melliferis instructum. 
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Habitat ad Caput Bonas 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 blos¬ 
som: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical, and 
terminating the branches : leaves by fours, glan¬ 
dular, and clammy. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot and half high, shrubby, with nu¬ 
merous small upright branches. 
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, 
viscous, and between erect and spreading. 
Flowers mostly by fours, nodding, and termi¬ 
nal : blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish 
red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished 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. droseroicles 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 vis¬ 
cous 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 perspi¬ 
ration, which being so very apparent, indicates it to be indispensably requisite to the health of the plant. 
