ERICA Bauera. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus spica- 
tis, axillaribus, dependentibus: foliis quaternis: 
caule erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis erectus, flexuosus; ramis longis, cum 
ramulis binis vel ternis, verticillatis. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, ple- 
rumque patentia. 
Flores in medio ramorum, spicati: corollis 
dependentibus,, subpollicaribus, cylindraceis, cur- 
vatis, pellucide albidis : pedunculis longis, brac- 
teis tribus instructis. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium. 
2. Idem subtus. 
3. Calyx. 
4. Stamen unum lente auctum. 
5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom : 
flowers grow in spikes from the axillae of the 
leaves, hanging down: leaves by fours: stem 
upright. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem upright and flexuose: the large branches 
are long, with smaller branches of two or three 
in whorls. 
Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, glaucous, and 
mostly spreading. 
Flowers grow in spikes about the middle of 
the larger branches: blossoms hanging down, 
nearly an inch long, cylindrical, curved, of a 
transparent white : peduncles long, and furnished 
with three floral leaves. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from August till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The same shown from the under side. 
3. The Empalement. 
4. A Chive magnified. 
5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
We found this new species of Erica in bloom at the Hammersmith Nursery in the autumn of 1823, 
under the specific title of Bauera, in compliment to Mr. Bauer, Botanic Draftsman to the Royal 
Gardens at Kew. Throughout this extensive Genus of plants, we do not know any one it resembles 
at present: but in three or four years time the case may be different, Mr. Lee having a collector now 
in the interior of the Cape in search of novelties; and should his attempt in exploring that botanic 
mine prove successful, we may expect an importation of many distinct species and beautiful 
varieties. 
