apicem longiuscule et leviter attenuate, limbi laciniis 



ovatis. 

 Erica Irbyana. Andrews' Heaths, t. 219. Lodd. Bot. Cab. 



t. 816. (forma hybrida a germina parum diversa. 



Benth). De Cand. Prodr. v. 7. p. 645. 

 Euryloma Irbyana. G. Don, Mill. Diet. Gard v. 3. p. 816. 

 Var. Bandonia. Andr. Heaths, £.-205. 

 Callista Bandonia. G. Don, Mill. Gard. Diet. v. 3. p. 813. 



A most lovely plant, brought to great perfection in the 

 greenhouse of the College Botanic Garden, Dublin, by our 

 friend Mr. Mackay : but hybridized, as are so many of our 

 Cape Heaths at this time in our collections, that it is impos- 

 sible to pronounce upon the limits of the species. The 

 present one was sent as E. Bandonia of Andrews : but that 

 is considered by Mr. Bentham in De Candolle's Prodromus 

 above quoted, as a form of E. Irbyana with patent leaves, 

 which is by no means the case with our plant. It differs from 

 the E. Irbyana of Lodd. Bot. Cabinet, in its still more erect 

 foliage and shorter and broader corollas : in short, it seems 

 pretty well to accord with the original E. Irbyana. 



Descr. A shrub, with flexuose branches, clothed with 

 erect, imbricated leaves, which are linear-lanceolate, aris- 

 tate at the point, plane or slightly concave in front, carinate 

 at the back, with a furrow on the keel, the margin entire, 

 but ciliated. Flowers in sessile umbels at the apex of the 

 branches. Pedicels red, bearing several erect, membranous, 

 subulate bracteas. Calyx of five linear-subulate sepals. 

 Tube of the corolla rather more than twice the length of 

 the calyx, oblong-urceolate, remarkably glutinous, white 

 or nearly so, the faux deep rose colour ; the four spreading 

 segments of the limb ovate, white. Stamens eight, as long 

 as the tube of the corolla, erect, all of them singularly flex- 

 uose near the middle. Anthers awnless. Germen oblong- 

 clavate, with eight glands at the base. Style a little longer 

 than the stamens. Stigma dilated with five obtuse points. 



Fig. 1. Leaf. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 3. Anther. 4. Pistil -.—magnified. 



