FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, spreading or nodding: footstalks coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves: blossom skittle-shaped, purple, and shining: segments of the border upright: leaflets of the cup ovate, pointed, and pressed to the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, two-coloured, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THIS Erica is a handsome bushy shrub, but certainly not magnificent, although, when first introduced in the year 1800, its claim to the specific title of magnifica was undoubtedly more appropriate than it now appears to be amongst the numerous species (and many of superior beauty) raised since that period from Cape seed. It is at present in but few collections; which is probably owing to its being of slow growth, and not easily increased. The only fine flowering plants we have seen lately have been in the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, and at the nursery of Mr. Williams, whence our figure was taken. [Illustration] ERICA minutæflora. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, subinclusis: stylo exerto: summitate magna, concava: floribus parvis, axillaribus: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis et ultra, erectus, flexuosus: ramulis verticillatis, adscendentibus, filiformibus. FLORES in summis ramulorum paniculati, plerumque bini, axillares; corolla campanulata, purpurea, minuta: calyce adpresso. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, longa, obtusa, glauca, et patentia. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, tomentosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret per menses autumnales. REFERENTIA. 1. Flores duo. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flos lente auctus. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips just within the blossom: shaft without: summit large and hollow: flowers small, axillary: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot or more high, upright, and flexuose: the smaller branches grow in whorls, ascending, and thread-shaped. FLOWERS grow in loose spikes near the ends of the branches, mostly in twos, from the axillæ of the leaves: blossom bell-shaped, purple, and very small: empalement pressed to them. LEAVES by fours, linear, long, blunt-ended, glaucous, and spreading. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, downy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers during the autumnal months. REFERENCE. 1. Two flowers. 2. Empalement magnified. 3. A Flower magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. The Seed-bud magnified.