Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers terminal, chiefly in threes, nearly upright. Peduncles very short. Empalement double; the outer three-leaved; the inner four-leaved longer, and broadly egg-shaped at the base. Blossom bell-shaped, and white. The segments are roundish, and spreading. Leaves by threes, spreading, wedge-shaped, broadish, rather thick, and shining, with very long footstalks. It is a dwarfish shrub. Branches spreading. The small branches are numerous, and crowded. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till July. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pinifolia, _coccinea_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores verticillati, conferti, patentes. Corolla tubulosa, coccinea; laciniis revolutis, tenuiter crenulatis. Folia sena, conferta, incurvata, et patentia. Caulis fruticosus, semi-pedalis, robustus. Rami foliis dense tecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers in crowded whorls, and spreading. Blossom tubular, of a scarlet colour: the segments of the border are rolled back, and slightly notched. Leaves by sixes, crowded, turned inward, and spreading. Stem shrubby, half a foot high, stout. Branches thickly covered with leaves. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till April. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives expanded, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pinifolia, _discolor_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores horizontaliter verticillati, sub apices ramorum. Pedunculi colorati, hirsuti. Corolla tubulosa, costata, pollicaris, pilis glandulosis densissime circumsessa, apicem versus albis, ad basin rubris: laciniis revolutis, obsolete crenulatis. Folia plerumque sena, confertissima, linearia. Caulis fruticosus, brevis, robustus. Rami foliis dense tecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers whorled, near the ends of the branches, in a horizontal direction. Footstalks coloured and hispid. Blossom tubular, ribbed, an inch long, and closely beset with glandular hairs, white towards the end, and red at the base. Segments of the border are rolled back, and slightly notched. Leaves mostly by sixes, very crowded, and linear. Stem shrubby, short, and stout. The branches thickly covered with leaves. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till July. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Plukenetia, _nana_. DESCRIPTIO.