STEM shrubby, weak, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy. LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, and spreading. FLOWERS grows by fours at the ends of the small branches: footstalks very short, and furnished with three awl-shaped floral leaves: blossoms tubular, long, slender, and of a red colour: segments of the border spreading, equal and white on the upper surface. SEED-BUD turban shaped, and furrowed, with honey bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THIS fine species of Erica was raised from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven: it bears a considerable resemblance to the E. tenuiflora, but differs in the specific character of its antheræ from all those we have hitherto figured: for when they are bearded, crested, or two-horned, those appendages have invariably been at the base, but in this one instance, they are almost at the top of the anthers, instead of the bottom. It is a plant that flowers freely, and during the autumnal months makes a most elegant appearance. [Illustration] ERICA Jasminiflora, _minor_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternis: ramulis numerosis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, erecto-patens: ramis longis. FOLIA terna, trigona, acuta, curvata, supra plana, subtus sulcata. FLORES terminales, terni vel seni: corolla rubra, sesquipollicaris, summa cylindrica, ad basin inflata, ore arctata: laciniis patentibus acutis: pedunculis longis coloratis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Stamina et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 3. Flos varietatis albæ. 4. Flos varietatis striatæ. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossoms: shaft just without: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: branches numerous. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot high, between erect and spreading: branches long. LEAVES by threes, three-sided, pointed and curved, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches in threes or sixes: blossoms red, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and contracted at the mouth: segments spreading and pointed: footstalks long and coloured. SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of April till June. REFERENCE. 1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 3. Flower of a white variety. 4. Flower of a striped variety.