Tips without the blossom, and two-horned at their base. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, singly, from the insertion of the leaves. Footstalks long, coloured, and glandularly hairy. Blossom pitcher-shaped, and purple: the segments obtuse, and upright. Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath: the margins are glandular, and rolled back. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. The large and small branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf shown from the under side, magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Plukenetia. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, exertæ, longissimæ. Flores sub-solitarii, pendentes a ramulis, in medio ramorum spicam laxam formantes. Pedunculi longi, colorati: bracteis tribus infra minutis. Corolla conica, purpurea: laciniis exiguis, erectis, luteo-virentibus. Folia terna, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra, fasciculata. Caulis erectus, bipedalis, fruticosus. Rami sub-simplices, ramulis brevissimis, confertis, tecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers nearly solitary, hanging down from the smaller branches, and forming a loose spike about the middle of the branches. Footstalks long, coloured: with three minute floral leaves on the lower part. Blossom conical, and purple. The segments of the border are small, upright, and of a yellowish green. Leaves by threes, linear, bowed, pointed, smooth, and bundled together. Stem upright, two feet high, and shrubby. The large branches are nearly simple, long, and covered with very short branches crowded together. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Plukenetia, _albens_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, exertæ, longissimæ. Flores sub-solitarii, pendentes a ramulis, in medio ramorum crescentes, et spicam laxam formantes. Pedunculi longi: bracteis tribus minutis ad basin instructis. Corolla conica, exalbida: laciniis erectis. Folia terna, fasciculata, linearia, arcuata, acuta, glabra. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, fruticosus. Rami sub-simplices, ramulis numerosis brevissimis tecti. DESCRIPTION.