Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves grow by fours, are blunt, broadly linear, keeled, curved, the edges glandular, clammy, and spreading.

Flowers grow in umbels of mostly four together, hanging down from the ends of the smaller branches; the footstalks of the length of the blossoms, with floral leaves that are very small, and placed at a distance from the blossom.

Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, very short, pressed to the blossom, and clammy.

Blossom egg-shaped, white, and like crystal, the size of a pea; segments of the border tapering and upright.

Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips crested, and within the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud globular, and furrowed. Shaft just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from February till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement and Blossom.

3. The Empalement magnified.

4. The Chives and Pointal.

5. A Chive magnified.

6. The Pointal magnified.