ERICA triflorae 
CHARACTER SPECIFICt'S. 
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis: foliis ternis; 
floribus ternis, globosis, albis : calyce magno. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus, ramosus: ra- 
mulis numerosis, plerumque ternis. 
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Folia terna, sub-trigona, acuta, lucicla, pa- 
tentia; petiolis longis, adpressis. 
Flores ramulos terminantes, terni, cernui: 
pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis, ca- 
lyci adpressis: foliola lato-ovata, carinata, alba, 
magna, cor oil se albae, globosae, adpressa. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon* Spec 
Floret a mense Aprili in Julium. 
REEERENTIA. 
1. Ramus parv* varietatis. 
2. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente 
aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
EIeath, with crested tips within the blossom: 
leaves by threes: flowers grow by threes, globular, 
and white : empalement large. 
DESCRIPTION". 
Stem a foot and a half high, upright and 
branching, with numerous small branches, mostly 
by threes. 
Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, pointed, 
shining, and spreading: footstalks long, and 
pressed to the stem. 
Flowers terminate the smaller branches by 
threes, nodding : footstalks short, furnished with 
three floral leaves, and pressed to the cup: leaves 
of the empalement broadly ovate, keeled, white, 
large, and pressed to the blossom, which is 
white and globular. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. . 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of April till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Branch of a small variety. 
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
Although this Erica is well known to cultivators by the specific title of triflora, it could not be 
discriminated by that name, as more than half the genus at present known bear flowers by threes, and 
which its nomenclator was not aware of 3 being amongst the earliest importations from the Cape. Our 
figure was drawn from a plant in the collection of Messrs. Colville, in the summer of 1808. 
