This Heath having foliage of a full green and very thick 
fet, and flowers of a fhining colour) not to be well imitated by 
art) with deep green tips, makes a ftriking and beautiful 
appearance. . 
We believe it to be an entirely new fpecies, except the 
Erica ardens of Anprews be a variety of the fame. It is 
one of the very extenfive colleétion belonging to Meffrs. Lez 
and Kennepy, at Hammerfmith, where it is known by the 
appellation of Erica Vernix. But as this word cannot be 
properly ufed as an adjeétive, and verniciflua has been already 
applied by Mr. Satissury to another fpecies, we have thought 
it neceffary to give a different fpecific name. For although 
Ruus Vernix is ufed by Linnaeus, yet this is a mere tranfla- 
_ tion of its vulgar name, the Varnifh-Tree; fo Ruus Sumach, 
becaufe that fpecies had been before called Sumach ; but it is 
4m fuch cafes only that the ufe of a fubftantive for a {pecific 
s admiffible. al RO Ae fs: ae 
itive of the Cape of Good Hope; flowers from May to 
- Requires the fame treatment as other Cape Heaths. 
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