FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches by threes, nodding: footstalks short, furnished with three floral leaves, and pressed to the cup: leaves of the empalement broadly ovate, keeled, white, large, and pressed to the blossom, which is white and globular. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of April till July. REFERENCE. 1. A Branch of a small variety. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. ALTHOUGH this Erica is well known to cultivators by the specific title of triflora, it could not be discriminated by that name, as more than half the genus at present known bear flowers by threes, and which its nomenclator was not aware of, being amongst the earliest importations from the Cape. Our figure was drawn from a plant in the collection of Messrs. Colville, in the summer of 1808. [Illustration] ERICA vernix, _longiflora_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus ternis, tricoloribus, viscosis, urceolatis: foliis ternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis; ramulis ternis, verticillatis. FOLIA ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata: petiolis longis. FLORES plerumque ternati, cernui, speciosi: pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus coloratis instructi. Corolla urceolata, glutinosissima, et lucida, colore saturate aurantio: laciniis oris erectis, saturate viridibus: calycis foliolis ovato-acutis, adpressis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Februarii in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamen auctum. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom: flowers grow by threes, are three-coloured, clammy, and pitcher-shaped: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot and a half high: the branches grow by threes in whorls. LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath: footstalks long. FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, nodding and showy: footstalks coloured, furnished with three coloured floral leaves: blossom pitcher-shaped, very glutinous, and shining, of a deep gold colour: segments of the border are upright, and of a deep green: the leaflets of the cup are ovate-pointed, and pressed to the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished with honey-bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of February till June. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.