FOLIA quaterna, linearia, tomentosa, obtusa. FLORES fere ramos terminant, racemum longum densum formantes: corolla tubulato-campanulata, diaphana, imprimis alba, denique saturate rosacea. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Martii in Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers grow in crowded spikes: leaves by fours. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: the smaller branches are numerous, short, and downy. LEAVES by fours, linear, downy, and blunt-ended. FLOWERS nearly terminate the branches, making a long close bunch: blossom tubularly bell-shaped, transparent, white at first, and then dying off of a deep rose colour. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from March till August. REFERENCE. 1. Calyx. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THIS Erica may be considered as an elegant but distinct variety of the E. _Linnæa_. It is well known by the specific title of _colorans_, in reference to the rich red colour the flowers acquire as the blossoms decay, which gives a very singular motley appearance to the plant. It continues a long time in successive bloom; and requires a dry airy situation in the green-house, to protect its small crowded downy foliage from the atmospheric damps too prevalent in this climate. [Illustration] ERICA Comptoniana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis minutis, inclusis, stylo sub-incluso: floribus in umbellis terminalibus: foliis ternis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli filiformes, adscendentes. FOLIA ternata, curvata, subulata, acuta. FLORES ramos terminant, plerumque in umbellis 3-6; calyx adpressus, pedunculis longis: corolla urceolata, erecto-patens, rubro-purpurea: oris laciniis æqualibus, patentibus. GERMEN columnare, tenue, bicoloratum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Martii in Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Folium lente auctum. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with minutely bearded tips, within; shaft just within the blossom: flowers grow in terminal umbels: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped and ascending. LEAVES by threes, curved, awl-shaped, and sharp-pointed. FLOWERS terminate the branches, mostly in umbels of 3 to 6: empalement pressed to the blossom: footstalks long: blossom pitcher-shaped, erect, and spreading, of a red purple colour: segments of the border equal and spreading.