Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers nearly solitary, hanging down from the small branches, growing near the middle of the branches, and forming a loose spike. Footstalks long, and furnished at the base with three small floral leaves. Blossom conical and whitish. Segments of the border are upright. Leaves by threes, bundled together, linear, bowed, sharp-pointed, and smooth. Stem upright, a foot and a half high, and shrubby. The large branches nearly simple, and covered with numerous very short branches. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till September. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. 5. Flower of a large variety. [Illustration] ERICA racemifera. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores sub-terminales, racemosi, cernui, plerumque duo; pedunculis longissimis. Corolla sub-globosa, purpurea; oris laciniis erecto-patentibus. Folia sena, linearia, conferta, oblique verticillata, tremula. Caulis fruticosus, sub-pedalis. Rami virgati, sub-simplices. DESCRIPTION. Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers nearly terminate the branches in clusters, hanging down, mostly two together, with very long footstalks. Blossom nearly globular, and purple; the segments of the border are between erect and spreading. Leaves by sixes, linear, crowded, irregularly whorled, and tremulous. Stem shrubby, near a foot high. Branches twiggy, and nearly simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till June. REFERENCE. 1. An umbel of flowers. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Sebana, _nana_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, exertæ, longissimæ. Flores duo, in apicibus ramulorum, dependentes. Pedunculi breves, nudi. Perianthium duplex. Corolla clavata, incurvata, rugosa, saturate aurantia; laciniis limbi erectis, incurvatis. Folia terna, linearia, arcuata, conferta, sub-trigona, glabra, apice acuta. Caulis erectus, robustus, humilis, ramosissimus. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. Flowers grow by twos, at the ends of the small branches, hanging down. The footstalks are short, and naked. Cup double. Blossom club-shaped, turned inwards, wrinkled, and of a deep orange colour; the segments of the border are upright, and turned inwards. Leaves by threes, linear, bowed, and crowded, nearly three-sided, smooth, and sharp-pointed. Stem upright, sturdy, low, and very much branched. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till January. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives spread open. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Sebana, _spicata_.