teis subremotis, sepalis lato-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, 

 corollae tubo costato basi inflato apicem versus in col- 

 lum longe attenuate, limbo amplo. Benth. 



Erica jasminiflora. "Andrews, Heaths, t. 26." (noil Salisb.) 

 Benth. in De Cand. Prodr. 7. p. 644. 



Erica lageiueformis. Salisb. Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 6. p. 316. 



Erica Aitonia, a, jasminiflora. Klotzsch, in Linncea, v. 

 10. p. 348. 



Euryloma jasminiflora. G. Don, Diet. Gard. and Bot. p. 

 816. 



Erica inflata. Hortul. (non Thunb.) 



This very handsome Heath was obligingly communi- 

 cated from the greenhouse of the College Botanic Garden, 

 Dublin, under the name of E. inflata. The E. inflata of 

 Thunberg it certainly is not ; but that name has incor- 

 rectly been assigned to the E. jasminiflora of Andrews, to 

 which this plant seems decidedly to belong : and were it 

 not stated that Roxburgh gives it as an inhabitant of the 

 Cape Colony, I should be disposed to consider it a hybrid 

 between E. Irbyana or E. Shannoniana and E. Aitoniana. 

 It has the inflated tube of the two former, and the large 

 limb approaching to that of the latter. 



Descr. A shrub, with flexuose branches. Leaves sub- 

 squarroso-patent, the upper ones nearly erect, all growing in 

 threes, shortly petiolated, oblong, or ovato-linear, aristate, 

 plane above, keeled, and with a sculptured line beneath, 

 the margin finely ciliated. Flowers umbellate, or rather 

 cymose, large, handsome, glutinous. Peduncles nearly an 

 inch long, red, bracteated at the base. Sepals five, red, 

 lanceolate, with a green nerve. Corolla white, tinged 

 with red or blush ; the tube much inflated below, tapering 

 upwards into a rather short, thick neck; the limb com- 

 paratively large, of four ovate segments. Stamens eight ; 

 filaments geniculated : Anthers large, curved, opening by 

 two oblong slits or pores. Germen oblong, substipitate, 

 contracted above the apex with five deep, longitudinal 

 furrows. Style long, filiform, a little exserted. Stigma 

 capitate. 



Fig. 1. 2. Leaves. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil '.—magnified. 



