Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in umbellis terminalibus, cernui. Corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, costata, viscosa: ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo. Pedunculi longissimi, pilis glandulosis tecti. Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis micantibus. Caulis spithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis. DESCRIPTION. Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow in terminal umbels, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, ribbed, and clammy: the mouth is oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour. Foot-stalks very long, and covered with glandular hairs. Leaves ternate, linear, blunt, bordered with glandulous shining hairs. Stem a span high, and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. Empalement magnified. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Echiflora purpurea. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, dense verticillati, horizontales. Corolla tubulosa, brevis, inflata, costata, instar Echii; oris laciniis patentibus, cordatis. Folia irregulariter verticillata, quina vel sena, linearia, acuta. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, densely whorled, and horizontal. Blossom tubular, short, inflated, and ribbed, resembling an Echium: segments of the border spreading and heartshaped. Leaves grow in irregular whorls of fives or sixes, linear, and pointed. Stem shrubby, a foot and half high. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom late in Autumn. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. Flower of a variety. 3. A chive, tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA exsurgens hybrida. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ. Flores in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti; verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus. Corolla cylindraceo-clavata, uncialis, curvata, carnea; oris laciniis magnis, revolutis. Folia sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia. Pedunculi longissimi. Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus. Rami et ramuli longi, simplices. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers grow about the middle of the branches in whorls, straight; the whorls rising out of each other in succession. Blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured; segments of the mouth large and revolute. Leaves by sixes, crowded, slender, linear, and ascending. Footstalks very long. Stem a foot-and-half high, upright. The large and small branches long and simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom during the Autumnal months. REFERENCE.