No. 1656. 



ERICA CRUENTA. 



Class. Order. 



OCT A NDRIA MONOG YNIA. 



This is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope: in the Keu' catalogue it is recorded 

 to have been introduced in 1774, by the 



celebrated Mr. Francis iMasson. 



It is of upright growth, producing its 

 long spikes of flowers in continual succes- 

 sion during the latter part of the summer 

 and autumn. 



It requires the usual greenhouse protec- 

 tion, and will propagate by cuttings, which 

 should be potted in peat earth. 



