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whorl, linear, somewhat sharp, smooth, or with a little roughness on 
the edges, convex and furrowed underneath, four or five lines long, 
FLowers axillary, crowded together in a short spike below the tops 
of the branches. PrpuNctes short, slightly downy and clammy. 
Bracts lanceolate, just below the calyx. SEPALS ovate-lanceolate, 
pointed, green, clammy, with a few short hairs, about two and a half 
lines long. Coro .ta red, seven or eight lines long, tubular, slightly 
incurved and swollen in the middle, contracted at the base, and also a 
little at the mouth, clammy and somewhat ribbed, the limb erect or 
recurved, with short broad blunt divisions. STAMENs included in the 
corolla. Fimaments filiform. ANTHERS oval, nearly terminal, 
without appendages. Ovary covered with hairs. 
Poputar aND GeocrapHicaL Notice. This is one of those vari- 
eties of which a considerable number exist in our gardens, all coming 
very near to the true Erica coccinea, but with a shorter corolla of a 
colour more of a purple or a pink red than scarlet and only differing 
from each other in slight shades of colour, and in the more or less 
open throat of the corolla, and as these are individual differences only 
perceptible to the eye of the gardener, the botanist considers them all 
as one short-flowered variety of the coccinea. Itis probable that some 
of them may be hybrids, and in particular the individual here figured, 
yet it is impossible to find any positive marks to distinguish it from 
the wild short flowered coccinea, a species readily known amongst 
others of the same group, by the broad green calyx not keeled. 
The tubular flowered Heaths with lateral flowers form two groups, 
of which the one, called by Salisbury Callibotrys has large petaloid 
or scariose sepals, and anthers usually awned; and the other, Pleuro- 
eallis of Salisbury, to which Erica coccinea belongs is known by 
pointed sepals not scariose, and anthers always without appendages. 
This group or section bears also a remarkable affinity to that called 
Hermes by Salisbury, which differs only in the shortness of its flowers 
a character that removes it form among the tubular heaths. G.B 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The individual yari- 
ety here figured was raised from Cape sceds, in the collection of John 
Willmore, Esq. of Oldford, Staffordshire. 
: DERIVATION OF THE NaMEs. 
the ancients was a Heath. Coc- 
Bares. Fram th 
es. 
CINEA, scarlet. 
SyNonyMEs, 
Erica EcuiiFLora, Andrews’s Heathery, t. 260. Loddiges: Botanical Cabi- 
net, t. 364. 
Erica Granpunosa, Wendland: Erice fasc. 13, with a figure, but not of 
Thunberg. 
