ERICA undulata. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica muticis inclusis : floribus terminalibus : 
corollis ampullaceis : foliis terms. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis fruticosus, pedalis : fruticosus rami 
virgati flexuosi. 
Folia terna, linearia, brevia adscendentia ver¬ 
ticil! is, irregulariter confertis. 
Flores ramulos terminant plerumque terni : 
corolla uncialis ampullacea, costata, undulata, 
rubra : oris laciniis reeurvatis. 
Germen tiaraeforme, sulcatum, ad basin nec- 
iariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bouse Spei. 
Floret a mense Mail in Julium. 
RE FERE NT I A, 
1. Folium. 
2. Calyx. 
3. Stamen, anthera lente aucta. 
4. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 
f Jeath, with beardless tips, within the blossom : 
flowers terminal : blossom flash-shaped : leaves 
by threes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem shrubby, a foot high : shrubby branches, 
twiggy and flexuose. 
Leaves by threes, linear, short and ascending, 
in irregular crowded whorles. 
Flowers terminate the branches mostly by 
threes : blossom an inch long, flask-shaped, rib¬ 
bed, waved, and red : segments of the border 
rolled back. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed, and 
furnished at the base with honey-bearing nec¬ 
taries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from the month of May till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A Leaf. 
2. The Empalement. 
8. A Chive, tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
Our drawing of this singular species of Erica was made from a plant at the Nursery of Messrs. Kol- 
linson, in the summer of 1828, said to be raised from seed of the E. transluccns. Its contort 
flowers suggested a specific title, by which, in bloom, it could not fail to be recognised ; the undu¬ 
lations continue the same from the early bud state, to the decay of the full-grown fioAver. The only 
Heath we ever met with of a similar and rather more contort character, Avas E. rugosa, (figured in 
Vol. 3 ,) which never ripened seed nor would propagate by cuttings, thus indicating an abortive no¬ 
velty on which Nature reluctantly conferred the power of vegetation. 
