HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossoms: flowers terminate the branches in umbels, crowded together, often budding: blossom bell-shaped and sweet-scented: branches numerous. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high, shrubby: the large and small branches numerous. FLOWERS terminate the branches in crowded umbels, often budding: blossom small, bell-shaped, of a pale purple, and sweet-scented: the leaflets of the cup are lance-shaped, small, and pressed to the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of December till June. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Blossom. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal magnified. THIS sweet-scented species whilst flowering produces fresh buds in the centre of the umbels, which, as the surrounding flowers decay, supply their place, and by that means the plant remains a long time in bloom. It resembles the E. caffra in many particulars. It is amongst the early importations from the Cape of Good Hope; and although not equally estimated with the numerous splendid species of recent introduction, the abundant succession of the flowers, their agreeable fragrance, and easy culture, will always render it an object worthy the attention of cultivators. [Illustration] ERICA ruber-calyx. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramulos terminant: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis: ramis et ramulis numerosis, flexuosis, filiformibus. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, recta, obtusa, erecto-patentia. FLORES ramulos terminant, plerumque quaterni, patentes: calyce et pedunculis rubris: corolla metulæformi, pellucida, imprimis alba, denique rosea: oris laciniis erectis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Antheræ et Pistillum. 3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high: the large and smaller branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped. LEAVES by fours, linear, straight, obtuse, and between erect and spreading. FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches, mostly by fours, spreading: empalement and footstalks red: blossom skittle-shaped, transparent, white at first, then dying off a rose colour: segments of the border upright. 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 January till May. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.