ERICA radiata discolor. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis : floribus verti- 
cillatis : caule fruticoso, erecto. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis bipedalis, erectus, ramosus : ramis 
subsimplicibus. 
Folia plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia, 
undulata, acuminata. 
Flores in ramulorum sub apicibus verticil- 
lati, horizontaliter siti: corolla subcylindracea: 
oris laciniis recurvatis, cordatis, albis. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad 
basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret per menses autumnales. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Varietas Erie® metulaeflora discolor. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamen et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom : 
flowers grow in whorls: stem shrubby and up¬ 
right. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem two feet high, upright and branching : 
the branches nearly simple. 
Leaves mostly by fours, linear, spreading, 
undulate, and pointed. 
Flowers grow in whorls near the ends of 
the branches, standing horizontally; blossom 
nearly cylinder-shaped: segments of the border 
recurved, heart-shaped, and white. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, 
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing 
nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers during the autumnal months. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Discoloured variety of Erica Metulaeflora. 
2. Calyx. 
3 . Stamen and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
The Ericas radiata and metulcejlora, figured in the 1st and 3rd volume of this work, are scions 
from a hybrid production of an Erica known by the specific title of spuria. Our figure represents 
an elegant variety of the E. radiata, raised from Cape seed at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson 
in the autumn of 1826. 
Among the dissections we have taken the opportunity of giving a branch with flowers of a 
similar variation of E. metulaeflora, to avoid the necessity for a separate figure. 
