ERICA crassifolia. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis inclusis : lloribus ter- 
minalibus: corolla campanulata : folia terna : 
caulis fruticosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis humilis, fruticosus : rami et ramuli 
flexuosi. 
Folia terna, obtonga, fere rotunda, brevia, 
carnosa, glauca, patentia et adscendentia. 
Flores ramulos subterminantes, plerumque 
terni: corolla campanulata, rosea, oris laciniis 
cordatis, reflexis. 
Germen tiarse forme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bona3 Spei. 
Floret a mense Anrili in Julium. 
a. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium, lente auctum. 
2. Calyx, lente auctus. 
3. Stamina et Pistillum. 
4. Stamen unum, lente auctum. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom : 
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flowers terminal: blossom bell-shaped : leaves by 
threes : stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem low, shrubby, the large and smaller 
branches flexuose. 
Leaves by threes, oblong, roundish, short, 
fleshy, glaucous, spreading, and ascending. 
Flowers nearly terminate the smaller branches, 
mostly by threes : blossom bell-shaped, rose-co¬ 
loured : segments of the border heart-shaped, 
and re flexed. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of April till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf, magnified. 
2. Empalement, magnified. 
3. Chives and Pointal. 
4. One Chive, magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
The Erica crassifolia is a perfectly new species, raised last summer from Cape seed, at Messrs. 
Robinson’s, Lower Tooting. It is a low bushy shrub, possessing a smooth handsome foliage, of a 
thick and fleshy appearance; by no means common to the genus, and therefore will not be very dif¬ 
ficult to distinguish either in, or out of bloom. Flowers during the months of May and June. 
