ERICA Salisburia* 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muiicis, subinclusis: stylo exerto: 
floribus spicaiis, confertis, prope ramorum apices: 
corolla clavata: ramis longissimis: foliis senis vel 
octonis, ercctis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis ercctis, tetrapedalis: ramis plerumque 
simplicibus. 
Folia verticillata, sena vel octona, erecta, lan- 
ceolata, intus plana, exterius sulcata : foliis ad 
basin angustioribus, acuminatis, patentibus. 
Flores spicati, conferti, prope apices ramo- 
rurn : corollis clavatis, coccineis, erecto-patenti- 
bus: pedunculis coloralis, bracteis tribus instruc- 
tis. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Octobris ad Februarium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium ad basin plantae. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Corolla. 
4. Anthera et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
6. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, just within the bios- 
som : shaft without: flowers growing in a spike, 
crowded together near the end of the branch : 
blossoms club-shaped: branches very long: leaves 
by six or eight, upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright, four feet high: branches mostly 
simple. 
Leaves grow in whorls of six to eight, upright, 
and lance-shaped, flat on the inner and furrowed 
on the outer side: leaves at the base of the plant 
are narrower, pointed, and spreading. 
Flowers grow in crowded spikes near the end 
of the branches : blossoms club-shaped, and of a 
scarlet colour, between erect and spreading: foot¬ 
stalks coloured, and furnished with three floral 
leaves. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month ofOctober till February. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf from the base of the plant.. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. A Blossom. 
4. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
6. Seed-bud magnified. 
This new species of Erica was first raised at the Hammersmith nursery about the year 1815, and is 
named after R. Salisbury, Esq., a most able botanist, and Vice-president of the Linnaean Society. 
Our drawing was made from a plant four feet high, with only one flower-stem, and without any col¬ 
lateral branches. 
