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Erica MetruL#rLora. Nune-Pin HEATH. 
Clafs and Order. 
~OcrTANDRIA Monoeynta. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
Anthere bifide. Cap/. 4-loculares. — 
Specific Charafer. 
ERICA metuleflora; antheris. muticis inclufis, corollis fub- 
: ventricofo-cylindricis, nudis, foliis quinis decemfariis 
fubulatis ciliato-{pinulofis, floribus umbellatis termi- 
nalibus. 
The fpecimen from which our drawing was taken was about 
two feet high. Branches few, ftri@. Leaves many, thick fet, - 
quinate, alternating in each whorl with thofe above and be- 
low, and thus fandiag in ten tolerable even rows when viewed 
from above downwards; they are fucculent, fubulate, mucro-— 
nate, fulcate underneath, ciliated at the edges with fhort very 
ftiff {ubpungent hairs, fhort, very patent, longer in the midddle 
of the branch than at eitherend, Petioles very fhort, adprefled. 
Peduncles terminal, umbellate, fubere&t, with two coloured 
braétes near the calyx and one green below the middle. Ca- 
lyx ovate-acuminate, hairy, five times fhorter than corolla. 
Corolla fmooth, minutely ftriated, cylindrical but fomewhat 
{welling in the middle. Faux gaping. Segments of the limb 
Toundifh, very entire, patent. Anthers enclofed, bifid, divari- 
cate: bafe rounded, fpurlefs. Germen turbinate, hairy. Stigma 
fubglobofe, enclofed. | 
It is related to Erica cerinthoides of Linnaus (crinifolia 
of Sarissury) but differs in many effential points, particular 
in that the umbels are not nodding, the corolla not hairy nor 
_ Vifcous, the leaves fhorter, more fucculent, and much more 
thortly haired, 7 
For this very handfome Erica, which we confider-as entirely 
new, we are indebted to Mr. Barr, Nurferyman at Ball’s- — Z 
Pond, Iflington, by whom we are informed that it wasfirft 
Taifed from Cape feeds, by Mr. Rawtinson, of Tooting. _ 
Flowers in July. Requires the fame treatment as moft part 
-Of the genus, © 
