HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: shaft without flowers, terminal: footstalks very long: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high, shrubby; small and large branches between; erect and spreading. LEAVES by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, and straight; flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten, with very long red footstalks: blossom pitcher-shaped: segments of the border spreading and equal. SEED-BUD turban shaped, with honey bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from July till September. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THIS Erica, named in honour of Lord Bandon, was raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery. It is rather a dwarf, shrubby plant, with numerous flowers, the blossoms resemble the E. Ventricosa; the great length of the flower-stalks, are like the E. Irbyana, as is also the foliage, which likewise bear a similitude to the leaves of the E. taxifolia; but altogether it is perfectly distinct from any one hitherto delineated, and makes a brilliant appearance towards the autumn. [Illustration] ERICA Bauera. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus spicatis, axillaribus, dependentibus: foliis quaternis: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS erectus, flexuosus; ramis longis, cum ramulis binis vel ternis, verticillatis. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia. FLORES in medio ramorum, spicati: corollis dependentibus, subpollicaribus, cylindraceis, curvatis, pellucide albidis: pedunculis longis, bracteis tribus instructis. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium. 2. Idem subtus. 3. Calyx. 4. Stamen unum lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers grow in spikes from the axillæ of the leaves, hanging down: leaves by fours: stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright and flexuose: the large branches are long, with smaller branches of two or three in whorls. LEAVES by fours, linear, obtuse, glaucous, and mostly spreading. FLOWERS grow in spikes about the middle of the larger branches: blossoms hanging down, nearly an inch long, cylindrical, curved, of a transparent white: peduncles long, and furnished with three floral leaves. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf. 2. The same shown from the under side. 3. The Empalement. 4. A Chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.