FLORES plerumque terni, cernui, ad ramorum extremitates: calyx duplex, crassus, adpressus: calyx exterior trifoliatus: corolla tubulosa, purpurea: oris laciniis viridi-albicantibus. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii ad Aprilem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM two feet high, shrubby, and erect. LEAVES by threes, linear, shining, erect, and spreading: the larger leaves are flexuose. FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, drooping, at the ends of the branches: empalement double, thick, and pressed to the blossom: the exterior calyx three-leaved: blossom tubular and purple: the segments of the border of a greenish white. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till April. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. THE Erica _transparens_ may be considered as one of the most beautiful of this fine tribe of plants. Its flowers equal in lustre the finest silk: their succession is so abundant, that we have found it in luxuriant bloom for six months. Our drawing was finished in the month of February 1820; and although the cold season checked the rich colour of its blossoms, yet was it (even so restrained) the most elegant ornament of the conservatory. It resembles the E. _discolor_ in many particulars, but is specifically distinct in having the anthers _muticæ_ instead of _aristatæ_. [Illustration] ERICA triflora. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: foliis ternis; floribus ternis, globosis, albis: calyce magno. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus, ramosus: ramulis numerosis, plerumque ternis. FOLIA terna, sub-trigona, acuta, lucida, patentia; petiolis longis, adpressis. FLORES ramulos terminantes, terni, cernui: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis, calyci adpressis: foliola lato-ovata, carinata, alba, magna, corollæ albæ, globosæ, adpressa. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Ramus parvæ varietatis. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom: leaves by threes: flowers grow by threes, globular, and white: empalement large. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot and a half high, upright and branching, with numerous small branches, mostly by threes. LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, pointed, shining, and spreading: footstalks long, and pressed to the stem.