SEED-BUD pillar-shaped, slender, and two-coloured. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of March till August. REFERENCE. 1. Empalement magnified. 2. A Leaf magnified. 3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. THIS fine new species of Erica we have named in honour of the Countess of Northampton, a great admirer and encourager of botanic science. Our drawing was made from plants in the Hammersmith collection, raised from Cape seed about the year 1815. Like many other species, we have found it in bloom in every season of the year; but the most general period of inflorescence for the whole genus is from the middle of spring till the beginning of autumn. [Illustration] ERICA costata, _superba_. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus terminalibus ternatis: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS bipedalis, fruticosus, erectus, ramosus: ramuli frequentissimi, longi. FOLIA caulina terna, linearia obtusa, pubescentia: folia ramentacea erectiora, hirsuta. FLORES in ramulis terminalibus plerumque terni, subcernui: corolla cylindrico-clavata, pollicari, pallide carnea, costata: oris laciniis luteo-albentibus. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Maio ad Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Anthera una, summitate lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. 5. Flos varietatis monstrosæ. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without: flowers terminate the branches by threes: stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM two feet high, shrubby, upright, and branching: small branches numerous and long. LEAVES on the stem by threes, linear obtuse, and downy: those on the smaller branches are more upright, and hirsute. FLOWERS terminate the branches, mostly by threes, nearly drooping: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, of a pale flesh colour, and ribbed: segments of the border of a whitish yellow. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of May till July. REFERENCE. 1. Empalement. 2. A Chive, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. 5. Flower of a monstrous variety.