E R I C A Beaumontia.
CH ARACTER SPECIFIC US.
BRICA muticis inclusis : fioribus campanulatis :
oernuis, foliis linearía gtandulesa : caule fruti-
DESCRIPTIO.
CAUI.IS sub podalis, fmlicosus, ram is et raruulis
flexuosis.
FOLIA plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia,
obtusa, supra plana, aubtus sulcata : margin ibus
glandulosus.
FLORBS in ultimis ramulis terminates Lernis vel
seuis, pcdunculi, rubri : corolla campanulata,
ceraui, magna alba : oris laeiniis revolutis.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom :
(lowers bell-shaped, nodding : leaves linear and
glandular: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM near a foot high, shrubby : the large and
smaller branches ilexunse.
LEAVES mostly by fours, linear, spreading and
obtuse, nearly flat on their upper surface, and
furrowed beneath : with glandular margins.
FLOWERS terminate the ends of the smaller
branches in threes or sixes, footstalk, red : blossom
bell-shaped, nodding, large and white : segments
of border rolled back.
GERMEN tiaraeforme, sulcatum : ad basin nee- ;! SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed: furtariis
melliferis instnictuni. nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Habitat ad Caput Bona? Spei.
Floret a menso Maii in Julium.
K Ë F Ë R E N T I A .
1. Folium auctum.
2. Calyx.
8. Stamina et pistillum.
4. Stamen, anlheríi una lente auctá.
5. Germen ct pistillum. stigmate lente aucto.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till .July.
K I-: F E R E N CE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
'2. The Empalement.
3. Chives and pointai.
4. A Chive, one tip magnified.
à. Seed-bud and pointai, summit magnified.
Tins fine new species of Erica was raised from Cape .seed last Autumn, 1827, and (lowered (lie ensuing
Summer for the first lime at (he Nursery of Messrs. Rolliuson, Lower Tooting. We have
named it after Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hail, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, a great admirer of this
fine genus of plants. The only heath throughout tins extensive family, to which it hears any rest mbiance,
is the E. odorata. It i- a handsome dwarf shrub, flowering freely during the months of
May and June.