REFERENTIA. 1. Varietas Ericæ metulæflora discolor. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamen et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow in whorls: stem shrubby and upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM two feet high, upright and branching: the branches nearly simple. LEAVES mostly by fours, linear, spreading, undulate, and pointed. FLOWERS grow in whorls near the ends of the branches, standing horizontally; blossom nearly cylinder-shaped: segments of the border recurved, heart-shaped, and white. 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. Discoloured variety of Erica Metulæflora. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamen and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THE Ericas _radiata_ and _metulæflora_, figured in the 1st and 3rd volume of this work, are scions from a hybrid production of an Erica known by the specific title of _spuria_. Our figure represents an elegant variety of the E. radiata, raised from Cape seed at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson in the autumn of 1826. Among the dissections we have taken the opportunity of giving a branch with flowers of a similar variation of E. metulæflora, to avoid the necessity for a separate figure. [Illustration] ERICA recurvata. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis, stylo exserto: foliis confertis; floribus terminalibus, umbellatis, declinatis; caule fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra: ramulis aggregatis, apice recurvatis. FOLIA plerumque sena, sparsa, linearia, obtusa, flexuosa; petiolis longis. FLORES in umbellis terminalibus sex ad novem, declinati. COROLLA oblonga, albicans; oris laciniis rectis; sub-nigris: stylo rubro, exsertissimo. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum: stylo filiformi, longissimo. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a Mense Aprili in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina a Pistilla diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without: leaves crowded together: flowers terminate the branches in umbels, hanging down: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot or more high; the small branches crowded together, and recurved at the point. LEAVES mostly by sixes, scattered, linear, blunt, and flexuose: footstalks long. FLOWERS grow in terminal umbels from six to nine, hanging down. BLOSSOM oblong, of a whitish colour: segments of the border straight, of a dark-brown colour: shaft red, and very much outside the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries: shaft thread-shaped, and very long. Native of the Cape of Good Hope.