5. Seed-bud magnified. THIS Erica has been so often baptized, that we are under the necessity of detailing the order of their succession. First it was called E. Solandra after the late Dr. Solander; secondly, another plant of a similar appearance, but bearing purple flowers, was named after that gentleman. This plant was then for some years called the old Solandra; but has recently been named Erica stellata, which we cannot retain, having already occupied that specific title. No other way remained to avoid confusion, but again to rename it something like the first, and not unlike the second, by which means we hope to keep it in its proper sphere--at least to make it recognised for what it has been, by what it now is called. Our drawing was made from plants at the Hammersmith Nursery. [Illustration] ERICA splendens. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus cylindraceis, tomentosis: foliis quaternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra: rami numerosi, tomentosi. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, tomentosa, adscendentia. FLORES plerumque quaterni, patentes, terminales: corollis uncialibus, ovato-cylindraceis, villosis, coccineis: oris laciniis erecto-patulis. GERMEN tiaræforme, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Maii ad Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical and downy: leaves by fours. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: branches numerous and downy. LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and ascending. FLOWERS grow mostly by fours, spreading, and terminal: blossoms an inch long, ovately cylindrical, villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of the border upright and spreading. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from May till August. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. WE have adopted the specific title by which this Erica is well known in the gardens, although we should have preferred that of _tomentosa_, so decidedly descriptive of the downy character that pervades the whole plant, and which renders it difficult to preserve from the damps, which love to lodge on soft and downy pillows, too often to the destruction of their resting-place. Our figure represents an entire plant from the Nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the year 1816. [Illustration] ERICA stellifera. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus subterminalibus: foliis quaternis: ramis verticillatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli verticillati.