HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and nodding: leaves lance-shaped and hirsute: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot high; the large and smaller branches simple and flexuose. LEAVES by sixes, lance shaped, curved and spreading, flat on their upper surface and deeply furrowed beneath: margins harshly haired. FLOWERS terminate the ends of the branches in umbels, nodding: blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled at the base, whitish, of a bright red colour above, and striped: narrowed at the mouth, and hairy segments rolled back. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of September till December. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf. 2. The same shewn from beneath, magnified. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. THIS Erica was first raised from seed at the Hammersmith Nursery, about the year 1820, and named by the late Mr. Lee after Lady Temple; it is a perfectly new and distinct species; the Erica’s cerinthoides and obbata are the only heaths to which it bears any resemblance. It is a handsome shrub low in stature, but easily distinguished from most of this fine tribe by its glaucous, hairy foliage. [Illustration] ERICA tenuiflora carnea. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis et ultra, fruticosus, flexuosus, filiformis, virgatus. FOLIA quaterna, leviter tomentosa, linearia, brevia, acuta, supra plana, subtus sulcata. FLORES ramos terminant, terni vel quaterni, plerumque adscendentes: corolla tubæformi, tenuissima, incarnata: laciniis oris æqualibus, cordatis, acutis, patentibus. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret per menses æstivales. 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 branches: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot or more high, flexuose, thread-shaped, and twiggy. LEAVES by fours, slightly downy, linear, short, pointed, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches by threes and fours, mostly ascending: blossom trumpet-shaped, very slender, and flesh-coloured: segments of the border equal, heart-shaped, pointed, and spreading. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers during the summer months. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.