3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal: peduncles long: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot and a half high, twiggy and flexuose: branches between erect and spreading. LEAVES by fours, three-sided, slightly curved, pointed and shining. FLOWERS terminate the ends of the branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom pitcher-shaped, red: segments of the border spreading, heart-shaped, flesh-coloured, and pointed: footstalks red, long, and furnished with three small floral leaves: empalement oblong, and pointed. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers in the summer months, and again in autumn. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. THIS fine new species of Erica was first raised from Cape seed in the nursery of Mr. Lee at Hammersmith, in the summer of 1824, and named in compliment to His Grace the Duke of Bedford. It bears very little if any resemblance to any other species as yet in cultivation with us; it flowers early in summer, and again in autumn. [Illustration] ERICA Sainsburyana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris inclusis, aristatis: floribus umbellatis, terminalibus, in pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternis, linearibus, longis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, sesquipedalis: ramis longis, simplicibus, adscendentibus. FOLIA terna, linearia, longa, subtus sulcata: petiolis longis, adpressis. FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis: corolla metulæformis, saturate carnea: pedunculi longissimi, filiformes, rubri, bracteis tribus distantibus lanceolatis instructi: calycis foliolis lanceolatis, coloratis, adpressis. GERMEN tiaræforme, longum, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junii in Septembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips within the blossom, bearded: flowers terminate the branches in umbels upon very long footstalks: leaves by threes, linear, and long. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: with long, simple, ascending branches. LEAVES by threes, linear, long, and furrowed beneath: footstalks long, and pressed to the stem. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels: blossom skittle-shaped and of a deep flesh colour: footstalks very long, thread-shaped, and red, with three lance-shaped floral leaves set at a distance on them: leaflets of the cup lance-shaped, coloured, and pressed to the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, long, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.