Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in small lateral pendulous branches, chiefly in pairs. Footstalks coloured. Blossom bell-shaped, of a red purple colour, and downy. The segments of the border are broadly egg-shaped, and spreading. Leaves by fours, linear, and downy; the older ones reflexed. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, and flexuose. Branches spreading, with the little flower-bearing branches pendulous. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pyramidalis. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in apicibus ramulorum umbellati, sub-quaterni. Corolla campanulato-infundibuliformis, carnea: laciniis limbi acutis, semi-ovatis, maximis. Folia sub-quaterna, linearia, pilosa, tenuia. Caulis fruticosus, ramosus, flexilis. Ramuli frequentissimi, verticillati, sub-quaterni, breves, cernui. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow at the ends of the small branches in bunches, mostly of four. Blossom between bell-and funnel-shaped, flesh-coloured: the segments of the border pointed, half-egg-shaped, and very large. Leaves mostly by fours, linear, hairy, and thin. Stem shrubby, branching, and flexible. Small branches numerous, whorled, mostly in fours, short, and hanging down. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from September till December. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA ramentacea. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores plures, terminales, umbellati, conferti. Pedunculi purpurei, longissimi. Corolla globosa, rubro-purpurea, ore contracto, laciniis minutis, reflexis. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra. Caulis erectus, spithamæus, ramosissimus. Rami et ramuli filiformes, divaricato-patentes. DESCRIPTION. Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers numerous, terminating the branches in close bunches. The footstalks are purple, and very long. Blossom globular, of a reddish purple, contracted at the mouth, the segments of which are very small, and rolled back. Leaves by fours, linear, and smooth. Stem upright, a span high, and very much branched. The large and small branches are thread-shaped, and spread in various directions. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA retorta. DESCRIPTIO.