ERICA Imperialis. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis : floribus termi- 
nalibus, speciosissirais : foliis tremulis, spiraliter 
sparsis, truncatis : ramis simplicibus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis bipedalis, erectus : ramis et ramulis 
simplicibus, longis. 
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Folia plerumque sena, linearia, obtusa, atte- 
nuata in petiolos longos capillares. 
Flores ramos terminant in verticillis simpli¬ 
cibus, patentibus, viscosis: pedunculis longis, 
recurvatis : corolla cylindrico-clavata, longa: 
ima parte profunde carnea, apice viridi, ore arc- 
tata, laciniis rectis, 
Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus fili- 
formis, subinclusus. Stigma peltatum, concavum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Novembri ad Januarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antbera una 
lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with bearded tips, within the blossom : 
flowers terminal and showy: leaves tremulous, 
spirally scattered, appearing cut off at the ends: 
branches simple. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem two feet high, upright: the large and 
small branches simple and long. 
Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and ta¬ 
pering into long hair-like footstalks. 
Flowers terminate 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-bud club-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. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one 
tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
Our figure 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. 
