Antheræ sub-exertæ, basi bicornes. Flores terminales, in umbellis irregularibus, plerumque horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi longissimi, capillares, colorati, glandulis tecti. Calyx lanceolatus, coloratus, glandulosus, adpressus. Corolla tubulosa, costata, leviter pilosa, imprimis saturate purpurea, denique pallidior. Folia terna, quaterna, ad basin plantæ quina, supra convexa, subtus sulcata, margine pilis longis obsita. Caulis fruticosus. Rami numerosi, erecto-patentes. DESCRIPTION. Tips just without the blossom, with two horns at their base. Flowers terminate the branches in irregular umbels, mostly in a horizontal direction. Footstalks very long, thread-shaped, coloured, and covered with glands. The empalement is lance-shaped, coloured, glandular, and pressed to the flower. Blossom tubular, ribbed, and slightly hairy, of a deep purple at first, and afterwards paler. Leaves by threes and fours, and towards the base of the plant they grow in fives, convex on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath, with long hairs on their margins. Stem shrubby. The branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till October. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA odorata. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores numerosi, sub apices ramorum umbellati. Pedunculi flore triple longiores, viscosi, bracteis tribus adpressis. Corolla campanulata, magna, alba, viscosa, lucida, melliodora: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis. Folia sparsa, sæpe vero quaterna, linearia, margine glanduloso-denticulata, truncata: petiolis longis. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami simplices, longi. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers numerous, growing in umbels at the ends of the branches. The footstalks thrice the length of the flowers, clammy, with three floral leaves pressed to them. Blossom bell-shaped, large, white, viscous, shining, and honey-scented: the segments of the border are rounded, and reflexed. Leaves scattered, but sometimes by fours, linear, appearing toothed by small glands at the edge, and seeming cut off at the ends. Footstalks long. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The branches are simple, and long. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf shown from the under side, magnified. 2. The empalement. 3. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA oppositifolia. DESCRIPTIO.