Ericinella
(a diminutive of Erica). ORD. Ericaceae. A genus of four species of small-flowered, slender, bushy, erect, greenhouse evergreen shrubs, with a Heathlike appearance. They are natives of South Africa and the mountains of tropical Africa and Madagascar. Probably none have ever been introduced, except the following. For cultivation, see Erica.
E. Mannii (Mann's). fl. dull red, three or four together at the tops of the branchlets, on short, curved pedicels, nearly globose; corolla sub-globose, with four short, obtuse, ciliate lobes. July. l. quaternate, close-set, whorled in fours, linear, with revolute margins, glabrous. h. 4ft. to 10ft. Cameroon Mountains, 1866. (B. M. 5569.)