CAULIS humilis, fruticosus; rami et ramuli flexuosi. FOLIA terna, oblonga, fere rotunda, brevia, carnosa, glauca, patentia et adscendentia. FLORES ramulos subterminantes, plerumque terni; corolla campanulata, rosea, oris laciniis cordatis, reflexis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Julium. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium, lente auctum. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal; blossom bell-shaped; leaves by threes; stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM low, shrubby, the large and smaller branches flexuose. LEAVES by threes, oblong, roundish, short, fleshy, glaucous, spreading, and ascending. FLOWERS nearly terminate the smaller branches, mostly by threes; blossom bell-shaped, rose-coloured; segments of the border heart-shaped, and reflexed. 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 leaf, magnified. 2. Empalement, magnified. 3. Chives and Pointal. 4. One Chive, magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THE Erica crassifolia is a perfectly new species, raised last summer from Cape seed, at Messrs. Rollinson’s, Lower Tooting. It is a low bushy shrub, possessing a smooth handsome foliage, of a thick and fleshy appearance; by no means common to the genus, and therefore will not be very difficult to distinguish either in, or out of bloom. Flowers during the months of May and June. [Illustration] ERICA cruciformis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris bicornibus, inclusis: floribus quaternis, tubulosis, brevibus: foliis quaternis, brevibus, linearibus: caule fruticoso, erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus: ramulis numerosis, confertis. FOLIA quaterna, linearia obtusa, glabra, supra plana, subtus sulcata. FLORES quaterni, cruciformes: ramulis plerumque terminalibus: corolla urceolata, aurantia, lucida: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junio ad Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamen unicum lente auctum. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. 5. Flores varietatum duarum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with tips two-horned, within the blossom: flowers grow by fours, tubular, short and linear: stem shrubby and upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high, and shrubby: the smaller branches numerous and crowded. LEAVES by fours, linear obtuse, and smooth, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS grow by fours, cross-shaped, mostly terminating the smaller branches: blossom jar-shaped, of a gold colour, and shining: segments of the border rounded and reflexed. Native of the Cape of Good Hope.