HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed; leaves linear and crowded: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot and half high: the large and smaller branches flexuose. LEAVES grow in irregular whorls, of fives and sixes: waved and spreading. FLOWERS grow in umbels, crowded and horizontal: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, and ribbed: segments of the border heart-shaped and spreading: footstalks short. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers during the Autumnal months. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Flower. 4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. 7. Flower of a variety. THIS handsome shrub differs not only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured in Vol. 3, but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears numerous bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches; there are two slight varieties, one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of which is given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection. [Illustration] ERICA exsurgens hybrida. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticillatis: foliis senis: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis, simplicibus. FOLIA sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia: pedunculi longissimi. FLORES in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti, verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla clavata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea: oris laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret per menses autumnales. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple. LEAVES by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long. FLOWERS grow about the middle of the branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured: segments of the mouth large, revolute, and nearly white within. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers during the autumnal months. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.