I am too ignorant of the structure of the flowers of this 
most extensive and highly beautiful Genus of plants, to be 
able to form an opinion of the merits of Mr. Don’s arrange- 
ment of it into new Genera. In the present instance, I fear — 
the species is not ranked, by our author, with those to which 
it is naturally allied ; nor does it accord in several particu- 
lars with the Generic character laid down for Eurytoma,,. 
which should have “a foliaceous calyx, a salver-shaped 
corolla, with an elongated, filiform or ventricose tube, anda 
dilated limb: filaments dilated, channelled; and leaves 
which are adpressed ;’”—marks which do not exist in our 
plant. 
Descr. With us Erica recurvata forms a shrub, about 
two feet high, much divided above into branches that are 
rather stout and flexuous, or almost tortuous, clothed 
with delicate, pale-green, spreading, sexfarious, narrow, 
linear leaves, of which the upper surface is plane, the 
lower keeled and marked by a furrow in the middle ; 
the margin slightly denticulate, every where glabrous. 
Flowers terminal on short branches, ten to sixteen collected 
together in a dense drooping head, slightly adhering by 
means of a viscid substance which invests them, and sur- 
rounded by a ray of leaves, which constitutes a kind of i- 
voluere. Pedicels exceedingly short, bearing two or three 
linear-subulate, white bracteas, of which the outer and 
longer ones are often tipped with green. Cal. four-partite ; 
segments \anceolato-subulate, appressed, a little scabrous at 
the margin, pure white. Corolla between ovate and cylin- 
drical, about half an inch long, white ; the segments alone, 
which are erect, or rather connivent, deep brownish-black, 
acuminated. Anthers included, bipartite, muticous; the 
r sale extending almost the whole length of the cells. 
ermen subglobose, four-lobed : Style twice as long as the 
corolla, white below, bright-red above: Stigma obtuse; 
searcely dilated. : 
_Fig..1. Flower with Bracteas. 2, Stamens. 3. Anthers. 4. Pistil. 5. 
Portion of a Leaf seen from above. 6, Ditto from below.—Magnified. — 
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