ERICA splendens. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Hrica, antheris aristatis, inclusis: stylo sub-ex- 
erto : floribus cylindraceis, tomentosis: foliis qua- 
ternis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra 
rami numerosi, tomentosi. 
Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, tomentosa, 
adscendentia. 
Flores plerumque quaterni, patentes, termi- 
nales: corollis uncialibus, ovato-cylindraceis, vil- 
losis, coccineis: oris laciniis erecto-patulis. 
Germen tiaraffiorme, villosum, ad basin nectariis 
melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Borne Spei. 
Floret a mense Maii ad Augustum. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Calyx. 
2. Anthera una lente aucta. 
3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
4. Germen lente auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom t 
shaft just without: flowers cylindrical and downy: 
leaves by fours. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high : 
branches numerous and downy. 
Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and 
ascending. 
Flowers grow mostly by fours, spreading, and 
terminal: blossoms an inch long, ovately cylin¬ 
drical, villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of 
the border upright and spreading. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, hairy, and furnished 
at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The Empalement. 
2. A Chive magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
We have adopted the specific title by which this Erica is well known in the gardens, although we 
should have pieftrred that of tQincntosci, so decidedly descriptive of the downy character that pervades 
the whole plant, and which lenders it difficult to preserve from the damps, which love to lodge on soft 
and downy pillows, too often to the destruction of their resting-place. Our figure represents an entire 
plant from the Nursery of Messrs. Colville, in the year 1816. 
