ERICA Russeliana. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus ter- 
minalibus : pedunculis longis : foliis quaternis : 
caulis fruticosus. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis sesquipedalis, virgatus, flexuosus : ra- 
mulis erecto-patentibus. 
Folia quaterna, trigona, leviter curvata, acuta, 
lucida. 
Flores in apicibus ramorum, plerumque terni, 
cernui: corolla urceolata, rubra: laciniis oris pa- 
tentibus, cordatis, carneis, acutis : pedunculis 
rubris, longis, bracteis tribus minoribus : calyx 
oblongus, acutus. 
Germen tiarasforme, sulcatum, ad basin necta- 
riis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret per menses aestivales, iterumque in men- 
sibus autumnalibus. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium lente auctum. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una 
lente aucta. 
4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
5. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom : 
flowers terminal: peduncles long: leaves by fours: 
stem shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem a foot and a half high, twiggy and flex- 
uose : branches between erect and spreading. 
Leaves by fours, three-sided, slightly curved, 
pointed and shining. 
Flowers terminate the ends of the branches, 
mostly by threes, nodding: blossom pitcher¬ 
shaped, red : segments of the border spreading, 
heart-shaped, flesh-coloured, and pointed : foot¬ 
stalks red, long, and furnished with three small 
floral leaves : empalement oblong, and pointed. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and fur¬ 
nished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers in the summer months, and again in 
autumn. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf, magnified. 
2. The Empalement. 
3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
This fine new species of Erica was first raised from Cape seed in the nursery of Mr, Lee at Ham¬ 
mersmith, in the summer of 1824, and named in compliment to His Grace the Duke of Bedford. 
It bears very little if any resemblance to any other species as yet in cultivation with us ; it flowers 
*arly in summer, and again in autumn. 
