LEAVES by threes, linear, obtuse, straight, smooth, flat on the upper surface, furrowed beneath, and rounded at the edges. FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, spreading, or nodding; footstalks short, coloured, and furnished with three coloured floral leaves; blossoms cylindrical, flesh-coloured; segments of the border of a pale green, and upright: the leaflets of the cup are ovate, coloured, 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 the month of May till August. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. THE Erica pumila is a new species, and very distinct from any with which we are at present acquainted. Our figure represents the entire plant, just as we received it growing in a pot. It was first raised at the Hibbertian collection in 1805, by Mr. Knight, with whom it has flowered this summer, for the first time in England. From the very small size, and slow growth of all the plants of this species as yet in cultivation with us, we are inclined to think it will not at any future period assume a gigantic appearance; but will most likely, continue to retain a claim to the specific appellation of pumila. [Illustration] ERICA pygmæa. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in umbellis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS humilis: rami et ramuli numerosi, filiformes: rami longi, patentes, decumbentes. FOLIA ternata, glabra, curvata, patentia, acuminata. FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis: in ramulis plerumque ternis: pedunculis longis, coloratis, pilosis: corolla campanulata, pilosa, saturate purpurea. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla expansa. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves by threes: branches twiggy. DESCRIPTION. STEM low: the large and small branches numerous and thread-shaped: the larger branches are long, spreading, and decumbent. LEAVES by threes, smooth, curved, spreading, and sharp-pointed. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels: in the smaller branches mostly by threes: footstalks long, coloured, and hairy: blossoms bell-shaped, hairy, and of a deep purple colour. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Blossom spread open. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.