A SMALL shrub, two feet high, the stem flexuose-erect, with ascending, whorled branches, and lesser branches simple, rigid, and irregularly furrowed. LEAVES irregularly whorled, but chiefly in fives, sixes, or sevens, horizontal, or a little recurved and flexuose, with incurved points, rigid, and at the margins roughish, of a dingy green colour, above marked by an elevated line, beneath channelled, with very long foot-stalks pressed into the little furrows of the branchlets. FLOWERS almost terminal in a spike densely whorled, horizontal, with peduncles pubescent, and furnished with three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved, with the leaflets downwards egg-shaped, but upwardly far acuminated, viscous, pubescent, and furrowed beneath. BLOSSOM tubular, short, inflated, resembling an Echium, deep flesh-colour, ribbed, and viscous, with spreading, rounded segments. CHIVES eight, hair-like; tips beardless, within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly; with eight honey-bearing glands; shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of February till May. REFERENCE. 1. The Calyx with the floral leaves magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal, with one tip magnified. 4. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 5. The woolly Seed-bud, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA elegans. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris cristatis inclusis, corollis terminalibus, capitatis, ventricosis, foliis ternatis trigonis glaucis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS robustus, fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus, ramulis patulis, cortice fuscescente. FOLIA ternata, trigona, linearia, glauca, parum incurvata, sub-erecta. FLORES capitati, terminates, cernui; pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus etiam coloratis instructi, et involucro polyphyllo; foliolis involucri ovatis, acutis, saturate roseis, apicibus viridibus. CALYX tetraphyllus, foliolis ovatis, acutis, concavis, saturate roseis. COROLLA deorsum ventricosa, superne arctata, basi carnea, ore viridi, laciniis 4, semiovatis, obtusis. STAMINA octo, capillaria; antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme; stylus filiformis, inclusus; stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Novembre ad Februarium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx et bracteæ. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Eadem expansa. 5. Stamen lente auctum. 6. Pistillum, stigmate diducto, lenteque aucto. 7. Germen auctum. 8. Ramulus cum involucro florum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom, blossoms terminal, headed, ventricose, leaves in threes three-sided and glaucous. DESCRIPTION. STEM stout, shrubby, a foot high, branched, with the branches spreading, and a brownish bark. LEAVES in threes, three-sided, linear, glaucous, a little incurved, and rather erect.