ERICA dumosa. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, exertis: floribus termi- 
nalibus, pendulis: pedunculis longissimis : foliis 
ternatis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis liumilis, fruticosus: ramis numerosis, 
filiformibus. 
Folia ternata, ovata, hispida, patentia, margine 
revoluta, subtus glauca. 
Flores terrainales in umbellis : corolla pen- 
dula, urceolata, purpurea : pedunculis patentibus, 
longissimis, lenuibus. 
Germen tiarasforme, sulcatum, tomentosum, ad 
basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonas Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium auctum. 
2. Stamina etPistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossom: 
flowers terminal and pendulous : footstalks very 
long : leaves by threes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem low, shrubby: branches numerous and 
thread-shaped. 
Leaves by threes, ovate, hispid, and spreading, 
rolled back at the edges, and glaucous beneath. 
Flowers terminate the branches in umbels: 
blossom pendulous, pitcher-shaped, and purple: 
footstalks spreading, very long, and slender. 
Seed-eud turban-shaped, furrowed, downy, 
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nec¬ 
taries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of July till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
The Erica dumosa is one of those few species whose rude exterior differs from the leading feature of 
neatness and uniformity so prevalent throughout this extensive family of plants. It is a dwarf shrub, 
with crowded irregular branches and coarse foliage, but possessing bright purple flowers on very long 
peduncles. By some cultivators it is called longipedunculata, a little more descriptive than specific, 
and which might be confounded with the E. pedunculata. But as a low bushy shrub it may easily be 
recognised by the unoccupied title of dumosa. Our figure represents an entire plant raised from seed 
at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1815. It requires rather more attention than usual, to prevent the 
long slender footstalks of the flowers from being too powerfully influenced by the atmosphere, which 
sometimes gives them a very disordered appearance. 
