sides. Peduncles axillary, cernuous, white, with two red 

 tipped bractes, remote from the calyx. Calycine leaflets 

 four, oval, concave, mucronulate, concealing the greater 

 part of the corolla; white, stained here and there with 

 bright blood -red blotches without fixed form or order, 

 which however entirely disappear with age. Tube of the 

 corolla globular with four obtuse angles, diaphanous : limb 

 four-cleft : laciniee erect, connivent, truncate, white. Anthers 

 black, crested, included. Germen octagonal, seated on a 

 fleshy receptacle. Style nearly equalling the limb of the 

 corolla. 



This beautiful Heath was communicated in March last 

 by Mr. Lee from his very magnificent collection at Ham- 

 mersmith, where it is known by the name of Erica trium- 

 pkans. 



