ERICA vernex rubra. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris cristatis, inclusis : floribus in 
medio ramorum : foliis ternatis: caule erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis pedalis et ultra: ramis plerumque 
ternis. 
Folia ternata, subulata, supra plana, subtus 
sulco exarata. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with crested tips within the blossom: 
flowers grow in the middle of the large branches: 
leaves by threes: stem upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot or more high: branches mostly by 
threes. 
Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, flat on their 
upper surface, and furrowed beneath. 
Flores ramulos ternatim plerumque terminant 
in medio ramorum, cernui: corolla subglobosa, 
ignea, glutinosissima, et lucida: limbo saturate vi- 
ridi: Iaciniis asqualibus, erectis. 
Germen tiarasforme, ad basin nectariis mellife- 
ris instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret per menses vernales, iterumque mensibus 
autumnalibus. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
Flowers grow in the middle of the large 
branches, and terminate the small branches mostly 
by threes, nodding: blossom nearly globular, of a 
fiery colour, very glutinous, and shining: border 
of a deep green : segments equal and upright. 
Seed-bud turban.shaped, and furnished at the 
base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers in the spring months, and again in 
autumn. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Chive, summit magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
This Erica was first raised in the summer of 1823, and flowered in the spring of 1824, at Messrs. Rol- 
linson’s nursery: it also bloomed again in the autumn of the same year, and is therefore doubly va¬ 
luable. It is at present a scarce plant; and, although only a variation between E. vernex and E.ar- 
dens, is superior to either of them in beauty, and will, no doubt, be considered as one of the finest 
of the Ericas family. 
