The second is, that very few collectors have been of late years 
in the Heath district of the Cape, which is almost confined to 
the narrow strip of country between the Western coast and 
the coast ranges, and where were the botanizing grounds of 
the collectors sent out at the beginning of the century. 
Erica Chamissonis is one of the few Heaths that extend 
~ eastward in South Africa, being found near Graham’s Town 
in the Albany district, about 500 miles east of Cape Town, 
where it grows on rocky hills at an elevation of 2000 feet, 
flowering in October. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal 
Gardens by Mr. M‘Owan. The plant here figured, raised 
from these, flowered in April. 
Drscr. A shrub with slender leafy erect branches, all 
parts, except the corolla, clothed with short soft spreading 
hairs. Zeaves about a quarter to a third of an inch long, 
ternate, spreading and incurved, sessile, linear, obtuse, grooved 
underneath from the recurvation of the margin. FVowers at 
the tips of short side-branches, solitary or three or four 
together, pendulous, rose-coloured, about a third of an inch 
in diameter ; pedicel half an inch long, pink, with two small 
basal bracts and two bracteoles above them. Calya jointed 
with the pedicel, small; teeth ovate, acuminate, much shorter 
than the corolla. Corolla between globose and campanulate ; 
lobes very short and broad. Stamens short, filaments gla- 
brous; anthers short, with narrowly crested pointed cells 
and lateral slits near the tip. Ovary tomentose, 4-celled ; 
style slender, stigma truncate; ovules many in each cell. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Leaves; 2, flowers; 3, the same with the corolla removed; 4 and 
5, stamens; 6, ovary; 7, transverse section of do, :—all magnified. 
