ERICA grandinosa.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: fioribus terininalibus
: foliis ternatis: caitle fruticoso.
DISCRIPTIO.
CAULIS pedal is, virgatus, flexuosus, frulicosus:
ramulis patcntihiis.
FOLIA terna, sub-trigonn, obtusa, brcvia, crassiuscula.
FLORES in apicibus ramulorum subterni, ccrnui:
corolla campanulala, parva, albirla, etcostata:
laciniil oris revolutis: peduncnlus pallide
carneus: calyx duplex, exleriori trifoliato, angustiori.
GERMEN liara;forme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin
ncclariis mclliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bous Spei.
Floret a niense Maii usque ad Julium.
R E F E R E N T 1 A .
!. Folium lente auctum.
2 . Calyx lente auctuB,
3. Stamen ununi, anthera lente aucta.
4. Germen et Pistill um, sligrnate lente aucto.
5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
HEATH with bearded tips within the blossom :
flowers terminal: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
STEM a foot high, twiggy, flexuous, and
shrubby : smaller branches spreading.
LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, obtuse,
short, and thiekish.
FLOWERS grow from the ends of the small
branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom
hell-shaped, small, white, and ribbed: segments of
the mouth rolled back: peduncle of a pale fleshcolour:
cup double, the outer one three-leaved,
and narrower.
SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and
furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July-
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified.
2 . The Kmpalement magnified.
3. A Chive, summit magnified.
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
5. Seed-bud magnified.
THE Erica grandinosa was sent us in the month of June 1824, amongst many other new species, by
Mr. Sinclair, from the splendid collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at YVohnrn Abbey.
This is one of those white-flowered Ericas so difficult to give a relief upon paper: it is a delicate
lillle Heath, and although deficient in speeiosity, claims attention as a perfectly new species, very
distinct from any other hitherto figured.