ERICA Beaumontia. 
CHARACTER SPECXFICUS. 
Erica muticis inclusis : floribus campanulatis : 
eernuis, foliis linearia glandulosa : caule fruti- 
coso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis sub pedalis, frutieosus, ramis et ra- 
mulis flexuosis. 
Folia plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia, 
obtusa, supra plana, subtus sulcata : margini bus 
glandulosus. 
Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales ternis yel 
senis, pedunculi, rubri : corolla campanalata, 
cerntii, magna alba : oris laciniis revolutis. 
Germen tiarseforme, sulcatum : ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Borne Spei. 
Floret a mense Mali in Julium. 
REFERENTI A. 
1. Folium auctum. 
2. Calyx. 
S. Stamina et pistilium. 
4. Stamen, anthera una lente aucta. 
5. Germen et pistilium, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom : 
flowers bell-shaped, nodding : leaves linear and 
glandular: stem shrubby. 
description. 
Stem near a foot high, shrubby : the large and 
smaller branches flexuose. 
Leaves mostly by fours, linear, spreading and 
obtuse, nearly flat on their upper surface, and 
! furrowed beneath : with glandular margins. 
Flowers terminate the ends of the smaller 
branches in threes or sixes, footstalk, red : blos¬ 
som bell-shaped, nodding, large and white : seg¬ 
ments of border rolled back. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed : fur- 
I nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
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Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
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Flowers from the month of May till July. 
reference. 
1. A Leaf magnified. 
2. The Empalement. 
3 . Chives and pointal. 
4. A Chive, one tip magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
This fine new species of Erica was raised from Cape seed last Autumn, 1827, and flowered the en¬ 
suing Summer for the first time at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting. We have 
named it after Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hail, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, a great admirer of this 
fine genus of plants. The only heath throughout this extensive family, to which it bears any resem¬ 
blance, is the E. odorata. It is a handsome dwarf shrub, flowering freely during the months of 
May and June. 
