ERICA Linnsea superba. 
CHARACTER SPEC1FICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis : floribus pilo¬ 
sis, pellucidis : foliis quaternis : caule erecto, 
fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis bipedalis, fruticosus, erectus : ramulis 
numerosis, brevibus, pilosis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, villis brevissimis, ad- 
scendentia. 
Flores ramulos terminant, formantes spicam 
Ion gam : corolla clavata, leviter curvata, unci- 
ali, pilosa, pellucida, ore albo inflata, ad ba¬ 
sin cylindrica et purpurea : laciniis erecto-pa- 
tentibus et revolutis. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret per menses Maii, Junii, et Julii. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamen, anthera una lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom : 
flowers hairy and transparent: leaves by fours : 
stem upright, and shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem two feet high, shrubby, upright: the 
smaller branches numerous, short, and hairy. 
Leaves by fours, linear, with very short 
hairs, and ascending. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches, 
forming a long spike : blossom club-shaped, 
slightly curved, an inch long, hairy and trans¬ 
parent, white and swelled at the mouth, cylin¬ 
drical and purple at the base : segments of the 
border between erect, spreading, and revolute. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the months of May, June, and 
July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
This fine plant has ornamented various collections for the last five or six years. In growth it is 
luxuriant, as we have frequently seen it two feet high, with numerous long flowering branches, at 
Covent-Garden, amongst many of the most beautiful (if not most rare) Ericas, which are exclusively 
cultivated for that well-known emporium. It may certainly be considered as one of the finest vari¬ 
ations of Erica Linncea, and as such its hyperbolical specific title may serve to distinguish it from 
most of the varieties. 
