ERICA pellucida rubra. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: 
foliis quaternis: floribus terminalibus : caule 
fruticoso. 
DESCR1PTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, ramis nu- 
merosis filiformibus. 
Folia quaterna, horizontaliter patentia, brevia, 
sub-linearia, obtusa, marginibus hispidis. 
Flores in ramis terminalibus uons vel quatuor, 
cernui: corolla clavata, curvata, rubella. 
Germen tiarasforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
tariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonrn Spei. 
Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una 
lente aucta. 
2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
3. Yarietates floribus intermediis. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: 
shaft without: leaves grow by fours: flowers ter¬ 
minal : stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a foot or more high, with nu¬ 
merous thread-shaped branches. 
Leaves by fours, spreading horizontally;, short, 
nearly linear, blunt-ended, with bristly margins. 
Flowers terminate the branches in one to four 
flowers, nodding: blossom club-shaped, curved, 
and of a reddish colour. 
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 August till No¬ 
vember. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
3. Intermediate flower varieties. 
This Erica varies considerably from the original species, and yet retains the leading feature of trans¬ 
parency that designates the mother plant. The flowers given with the dissections are from plants 
nearly allied to the white-flowered pellucida ; and had we been then in possession of them, they would 
have arranged better with that figure; but this opportunity admits of their being made use of as inter¬ 
mediate varieties of flower only. 
Our drawing was taken at the Hammersmith nursery in 1816, where it was first raised from seed 
