HEATH with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers terminal, flask-shaped: footstalks very long: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high, upright: branches long, and nearly simple. LEAVES by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, straight and pointed, flat on the upper surface, and keeled beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of 5 to 8, with very long red footstalks: blossoms of a pale flesh-colour, very glutinous, and large, cylindrical on the upper part, and swelled out at the base: narrowed at the mouth, with the segments spreading and egg-shaped. SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed, 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 was raised from Cape seed brought over by Niven in 1808. It is a fine addition to this extensive family, and may be increased by cuttings, but not so freely as many other species; which joined to the short period of only three years since it was first raised from seed, makes it at present rather scarce, and in but few collections. Our figure represents a plant in the nursery of Mr. Rollinson, where we found it under the specific title of Shannonea, in compliment to the Earl of Shannon. [Illustration] ERICA Solandroides. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, sub-exertis: floribus capitatis, aggregatis, cernuis: foliis confertis, pilosis, obtusis: ramis longis, simplicibus: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis et ultra: ramis simplicibus, longis, erectis, vel flexuosis. FOLIA irregularia, plerumque quatuor, aggregata, pilosa, linearia obtusa, adscendentia: foliis ad basin patentibus. FLORES capitatim terminales, aggregati: corolla parva, albente, tubo-campanulata: calyce duplici, exteriore trifoliato, subulato, piloso, adpresso: pedunculo brevi. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Maio in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Flos. 3. Stamen unum lente aucto. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, just without the blossom: flowers grow in crowded heads, nodding: leaves crowded, hairy, and obtuse: branches long and simple: stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot or more high: branches simple, long, upright, or flexuose. LEAVES irregular, mostly by fours, crowded together, hairy, linear obtuse, and ascending: leaves at the base of the plant spreading. FLOWERS terminate the branches in crowded heads: blossom small, whitish, tubularly bell-shaped: cup double, the outer one three-leaved awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom: footstalk short. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of May till July. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.