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Identification
Erica ventricosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE ]
Related name
  • Erica ventricosa

Flora

Entry for ERICA ventricosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 4, page 2, (1909) Author: By H. BOLUS, F. GUTHRIE, and N. E. BROWN.
Names
ERICA ventricosa Thunb. [family ERICACEAE], Diss. Erica, 27, t. 1;—Andr. Heathery, t. 197, and Col. Heaths, t. 65; Bot. Mag. t. 350; Wendl. Eric. Ic. fasc. 3, 11; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 431; Herb. Amat. t. 62; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 642.
ERICA prægnans Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 231, and Col. Heaths, t. 202; Lodd. l.c. t. 945.
ERICA venusta Salisb. [family ERICACEAE], Prodr. 297, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 385, not of Sinclair, nor Klotzsch.
ERICA densa Andr. [family ERICACEAE], Heathery, t. 212, and Col. Heaths, t. 163.
ERICA glabra Link [family ERICACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. i. 362.
ERICA translucens Wendl. ex Spreng. [family ERICACEAE], Syst. ii. 186, in syn.?
Information
erect, 2–6 ft. high; branches stout, rigid; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose, sometimes undulate, crowded, linear-subulate, acuminate, margins white, pilose, rarely subglabrous, 6–8 lin. long; flowers in dense umbels at the ends of the branchlets, sometimes forming close pyramidal masses; pedicels pubescent, 3–4 lin. long; bracts remote, small, linear, ciliate; sepals linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious-edged, glabrous, 3 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate, attenuate upwards and constricted at the throat, glabrous, dry, white, rosy, or red; tube 6–8 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, sometimes mealy, 1 1/2 lin. long; anthers cuneate-oblong, purple, about 2/3 lin. long, minutely crested; crests not reaching to the base of the cell; style included, stigma subsimple; ovary turbinate, stipitate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION ascending from 1000–5200 ft.: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Peak, Marloth, 2416! Paarl Div.; mountains about French Hoek, Schlechter, 9236! MacOwan, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 939! Stellenbosch Div.; hills about False Bay, Masson and Niven (ex Bentham). Caledon Div.; near Amandel River, Bolus, 5172!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Herb. Salisbury! and cultivated specimens!
Notes
Chiefly variable in the size of its flowers and the degree of copiousness or density of the inflorescence. But we cannot discover any constant characters on which to form varieties. The smaller flowered forms verge towards E. Walkeria in § Callista. Andrews' t. 231 looks distinct, but is possibly merely a garden hybrid; this species having been much in cultivation. From the great number, and the porcelain-like texture of its delicately coloured flowers, it is one of the most beautiful of heaths, and a fine pyramidal bush of 6 ft. high was once seen by the writer, covered from base to apex with thousands of flowers. E. ventricosa, var. bothwelliana, Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1882, 363, probably belongs here.

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