more or less hairy or downy. Ftowers solitary, in twos or in threes 
either at the end of the branches, or on extremely short abortive axil- 
lary branches, so as to appear lateral. PrepicELs about three lines 
long, bearing about the middle, or lower down, three small lanceolate 
coloured bracts; the lateral pedicels have also frequently at their base 
several smaller bracts or abortive leaves. SEpaxs or divisions of the 
calyx distinct from each other, broadly lanceolate or ovate, somewhat 
pointed, smooth, membranous or almost petaloid, coloured with a 
longitudinal rib, they are usually about two lines long. CoroLta 
from three to five lines long in the different varieties, half as long 
again as the calyx, oval pitcher-shaped, the tube inflated, the mouth 
slightly contracted, the divisions of the limb short, blunt, somewhat 
spreading or recurved. STAMENS and Pistit in the corolla. Fita- 
MENTS flattened. ANTHERS oblong, black, with two appendages at 
the base, usually broad and cristate, but in the present variety narrow 
and nearly entire. Ovary smooth. 
Popuntar aND GeocrRapHicaL Notice. The original Erica an- 
dromedzflora appears not to be uncommon in the mountains of Hot- 
tentots Holland; but the present variety, differing in its blunter and 
smoother leaves, and in the appendages of the anthers, is possibly 
the result of hybridization between Erica andromedeflora and another 
species; but as the former, even in a wild state, is very variable 
in the size and colour of the flowers, in the foliage, and even in the 
staminal appendages, it appears safer to class the present one as a 
mere variety. The species was referred by Mr. Don to his genus 
Eurystegia, and in the forthcoming volume of De Candolle’s Prodro- 
mus, is placed in a section for which that name is retained, though 
with different characters. Like the other species of the same section, 
it connects in some measure the heaths with a flat spreading limb 
which constitute the sub-genus Stellanthe, with the large group of 
small flowered heaths. It is also somewhat anomalous in its inflores- 
cence, having both terminal and lateral flowers. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Erica andro- 
medeflora was sent home, long since, both by Mr. Masson and by 
Mr. Niven, and has ever since remained in our gardens, where it is 
better known in the shape of a pale flowered variety, under the name 
of Erica pomifera. The accompanying plate was taken from a 
seedling raised, amongst numerous others, by Mr. T. Williams, in the 
garden of John ox Esq. of Oldford, from Cape seeds. 
VATION OF THE Nam 
ene from a supposition ge the Erica of the aittoate was a Heath. AnpDRO- 
ED£FLoRA, Andromeda. flowered. 
ERIcA ANDROMEDFLQRA. Andrews’s Heather, t. 151. Botanical Magazine, 
t. 1250. Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 
Erica moLosericEa. Salisbury: rnsactons of the Linnwan Society, v. 6, 
p- 352. Erica POMIFERA of our Garden: 
