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ERICA tumida. — 
Scarlet bloated-flowered' Heath. 
OCTANDRIA.. MONOGYNI4A. 
ERICA... Supra: fol. 6. 
Div. WT. Coniflore grandes. Corolle inferné dilatate, semuncia lon- 
giores. Dryander in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 380. 
Subdiv. II. A. Anthere aristate. Idem, ubi supra. 
E. tumida, pubescens ; bracteis duabus subulatis calyci proximis, foliis 
decussato-quaternis, corollis villosis pluriés longioribus calyce. 
Fruticulus strictus, undique extits villosus. Folia patentisstma, decussato- 
quaterna, vix 2 lineas excedentia, linearia, obsoleté subulata cum obtuso 
acumine, villis brevibus hirta, lateribus reflexis in sulcum posticum conniventi- 
bus. Flores aggregato-terminales, subquaterni, pedicello ipsis duplo v. ultra 
breviore, opace sed lat? coccinei, ac cerinthoidis quos plurimim emulant. 
Cal. herbaceus, stellatus, ut pedicellus pilis capitatis conspersus, multotiés 
brevior corolla, foliolis referentibus folia caulina nonnihil dilatata: bractes: 
duce contigue opposite horizontales eaterné versus directe. Cor. subuncialis, 
ovato-cylindrica, inflata, villosa, ore constricta, lacinulis erecto-patulis, ob- ° 
tusis, brevissimis. Stam. libera inclusa: anth. pallido-fusce, aristate, 
aristis subulatis, serrulatis, antheré parim brevioribus. Stylus exsertus, 
coccineus, jfilamentis pluriés crassior, striato-teres, inclinatus, assurgens : 
Stigma capitatum, obsolete 4-gonum, aterrimum, ’ 
een ISIE nnn NEES EEEEeennenesnene! 
We do not find this species registered in any publica- 
tion that has fallen in our way, or if it is, we have not 
recognised it. At a first glance our plant might be easily 
mistaken for a variety of the more common Enrica ceriniho- 
ides, with which it participates to a considerable extent in 
habit and colour. But in fumida the foliage is on a much 
smaller scale than in that, the inflorescence disposed by twos 
and fours, not in numerously crowded-flowered bunches; its 
corolla is also remarkably distended and of nearly three times 
the circumference of that of cerinthoides; its anthers are 
awned, in that awnless; the stigma inclosed in that, pro- 
truded in this. In éwmida the corolla is about an inch long, 
in the other somewhat longer; in both of the finest scarlet 
hue, clouded by the pubescent covering of the exterior 
surface. ; 
Introduced, we understand, about three or four years » 
ago by Mr. Niven, from the Cape of Good Hope. It re- 
quires, like all the congeners from that part of the world, 
