ERICA exsurgeos hybrida. 
CHARACTER SPECIF1CUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticil 
latis: foliissenis: caule erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis 
longis, simplicibus. 
Folia sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscen- 
deritia: pedunculi longissimi. 
Flores in medio ramorura, verticillati, recti, 
verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla cla- 
vata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea : oris 
laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad 
basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bon® Spei. 
Floret per menses autumnales. 
llEFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, sjigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips without the blossom : 
flowers grow in whorls: leaves by sixes: stem 
upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot and half high, upright: the large 
and smaller branches, long and simple. 
Leaves by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, 
and ascending : footstalks very long. 
Flowers grow about the middle of the 
branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising 
out of each other in succession: blossom cylindri- 
cally club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh- 
coloured : segments of the mouth large, revolute, 
and nearly white within. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, 
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing 
nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the autumnal months. 
REFERENCE. 
I 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Chive, summit magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
This Erica resembles the E. exsurgeus in its flowering, with some affinity in the foliage to the 
E. vestita alba, and is considered an hybrid production between those species. 
Our figure was taken from a plant, four years old, at the nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower 
Tooting, in the autumn of 1824, where it was first raised from seed, and is at present regarded as a 
perfectly new and scarce Heath. 
