ERICA mirabilis. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus sub- 
sessilibus, terminalibus: foliis quaternis: caulis 
fruticosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis pedalis: ramuli numerosi, e recto-pa - 
tentes. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra. 
Flores subsessiles, terminates, fastigiati, 
quaterni: corolla ventricosa, imprimis alba, deni- 
que rosacea: ore arctato : laciniis cordatis, un- 
dulatis, expansis, maximis. 
Germen tiarasforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad 
basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei., 
Floret a mense Junii ad Septembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una 
lente aucta. 
3. Germen et pistillum stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom : 
flowers nearly sessile and terminal: leaves by 
fours: stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot high: the smaller branches nu¬ 
merous, between erect and spreading. 
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt and smooth. 
Flowers nearly sessile, terminal, in bunches 
of four together: blossom swelled out, white at 
first, but dying off a rose-colour: narrowed at 
the mouth : segments of the border heart-shaped, 
waved, spreading and large. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and 
furnished at the base with honey-bearing nec¬ 
taries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of June to September. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
The Erica mirabilis may be considered as an intermediate species between the Ericas Walkeria 
and Hyacinthoides, removed from each and yet allied to both. When in perfection, the inner seg¬ 
ments of the blossoms are of a pure white, but on going off may justly be said to blush themselves 
out of bloom. Our figure was made from the nursery of Messrs. Rollinsons at Lower Tooting, in 
the summer of 1824. 
