ERICA Solandroides. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
.Erica, antheris aristatis, sub-exertisfloribus ca¬ 
pitals, aggregatis, cernuis: foliis confertis, pilosis, 
obtusis: ramis longis, simplicibus: caule erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis pedalis et ultra: ramis simplicibus, 
longis, erectis, vel flexuosis. 
Folia irregularia, plerumque quatuor, aggre- 
gata, pilosa, linearia obtusa, adscendentia : foliis 
ad basin patentibus. 
Flores capitatim terminales, aggregati: co¬ 
rolla parva, albente, tubo-campanulata : calyce 
duplici, exteriore trifoliato, subulato, piloso, ad- 
presso: pedunculo brevi. 
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Habitat ad Caput Borne Spei. 
Floret a mense Maio in Julium. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx lente auctus. 
2. Flos. 
3. Stamen unum lente aucto. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips, just without the blos¬ 
som : flowers grow in crowded heads, nodding: 
leaves crowded, hairy, and obtuse : branches long 
and simple : stem upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot or more high : branches simple, 
long, Upright, or flexuose. 
Leaves irregular, mostly by fours, crowded to¬ 
gether, hairy, linear obtuse,and ascending: leaves 
at the base of the plant spreading. 
Flowers terminate the branches in crowded 
heads : blossom small, whitish, tubularly bell¬ 
shaped : cup double, the outer one three-leaved 
awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom : 
footstalk short. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of May till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Flower. 
3. A Chive magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
This Erica has been so often baptized, that we are under the necessity of detailing the order of their 
succession. First it was called E. Solandra after the late Dr. Solander; secondly, another plant of a 
similar appearance, but bearing purple flowers, was named after that gentleman. This plant was 
then for some years called the old Solandra; but has recently been named Erica stellata, which we 
cannot retain, having already occupied that specific title. No other way remained to avoid confu¬ 
sion, but again to rename it something like the first, and not unlike the second,by which means we hope 
to keep it in its pioper sphere—at least to make it recognised for what it has been, by what it now is 
called. 
Our drawing was made from plants at the Hammersmith Nursery. 
