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ERICA BANKSIANA. 
(banks's hkatu.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ERICACE^. 
Generic Character. — Vide vol. vi. p. 3. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub, seldom growing more than eighteen inches high. 
Branches very dense, external ones partially drooping. Leaves usually in threes, awl-shaped, three- 
sided, acute, slightly channelled on the inner side, rigid, deep green. Flowers commonly in clusters 
of two or three, at the extremity of the smaller branches, with scarcely any peduncles. Calyx double ; 
outer one consisting of three oval segments, inner one much larger, four-lobed. Corolla cylindrical, 
whitish, slightly swelling at the lower end, with reflexed red segments. iStom^ras protruded from the 
corolla on a tubular receptacle, with beardless anthers, which are not to be distinguished from the 
filaments. Style longer than the stamens. Stigma with four angles. Ovary nearly elliptical. 
Messrs. Liicombe, Pince, and Co. of the Exeter nursery, having obligingly sent 
us the figure herewith supplied, and which was executed in a superior manner by 
Mr. S. Watts of that city, in the summer of 1839, we now lay it before our 
readers, satisfied that the exceedingly pretty plant it represents is neither duly 
known nor cultivated. 
It has lately been asserted in this Magazine that the culture of Cape Heaths is 
experiencing a marked revival in Britain ; and since that declaration was made 
public, we have seen sufficient to convince us still more thoroughly of its correctness. 
In provincial private establishments, it is beginning to be felt that a more lovely 
tribe of greenhouse exotics cannot be selected ; while their numbers are so great as 
to admit of the most extensive choice. The fact, too, is becoming api)arent that 
former ill-success is to be ascribed to the injudicious distribution of these plants 
among other greenhouse species, and not to any difficulty connected with their 
management. 
Glancing at the metropolitan nurseries, we find Messrs. Rollison of Tooting, 
and Messrs. Henderson of Pine Apple-place, with a beautiful span-roofed house, 
appropriated to the culture of specimen Heaths ; the structure of the latter 
gentlemen being quite a model for erections of this kind. Mr. Jackson of Kingston 
