No. 13. 
ERICA BLANDA. 
Class, Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of the Cape, flowering here in 
great profusion from June to December. 
Requires similar soil and management to the 
other heaths. This beautiful plant was pre- 
sented to us, together with several other rare 
and new species, by George Hibbert, Esq. a 
gentleman who will long be remembered for 
his liberality and his very great attachment 
to botany; particularly to this genus, of 
which he possessed a collection far surpas- 
sing in number and extent any in Europe. 
At his own expence he sent cut a person 
to collect seeds in Africa. We cannot look 
around us in any direction, without seeing 
many elegant productions which he first in- 
troduced; without him these would probably 
yet— 
“ Blush unseen, 
** And waste their sweetness in the desart air.” 
