Tas. 5569. 
ERICINELLA Manyt. 
Cameroons Mountain Heath. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcex.—Tetrranpria Monooynta. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-partitus, lacinia infima majore. Corolla campanu- 
lata, limbo 4-fido suberecto. Stamina 4, rarius 5, libera v. subconnata. 
Stigma peltatum. Ovarium 3-6-loculare, loculis pluri-ovulatis. Capsula 
3-6-locularis, 3-6-valvis.—Fruticuli fenwes, ericoidei, Afric tropice et 
australis ef Madagascarie incole. Folia 3-4-natim verticillata, anguste 
linearia. Flores terminales, pedicellati, parvi. Bractex 0. 
Eetcrveta Mannii ; frutex ramosissimus, 5-12-pedalis, ramis ramulisque 
pubescenti-tomentosis puberulisve, foliis 4-nis patulis v. appressis 
glabris nitidis, pedicellis folia superantibus, sepalis minoribus corolla 
dimidio brevioribus, antheris muticis inclusis, stylo breviter exserto. 
Enxtctnentza Mannii. Hook.f. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vi. 16 et vii. 205. 
Till the expedition of Gustav Mann, late collector for the 
Royal Gardens of Kew, to the West Coast of Africa, the flora 
of the tropical mountains of that continent was totally un- 
known; now, thanks to his intrepidity and prudence, we 
have excellent dried collections and many living plants from 
the loftiest regions of that district hitherto visited by white 
men,—viz. Fernando Po and _ the Cameroons Mountains. 
From this curious country Helichrysum Mannii has already 
been figured (ante, Tab. 5431), and other curious things will 
hereafter appear. Meanwhile we here figure a type of ve- 
getation equally familiar in Europe and South Africa, but 
which had not previously been known to inhabit the inter- 
mediate region. M. Mann found it at an elevation of 10,000 
feet on Fernando Po, and between 4000 and 11,000 feet on 
the Cameroons Mountains, where it forms a shrub, sometimes 
twelve feet high. The other species of the genus, which is 
very Closely allied to Erica itself, are found, one in Madagas- 
APRIL Ist, 1866. 
