Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis, subulatis, adpressis.

Corolla campanulato-infundibuliformis, carnea; laciniis limbi acutis, maximis, semiovatis, apicibus parum patulis.

Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

Pistillum. Germen sub-globosum, apice octo-partitum, compressum. Stylus filiformis, erectus, subexsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mensi Septembris, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx, et Corolla.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Corolla.

4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta.

5. Anthera una lente aucta.

6. Pistillum, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers grow in umbels mostly of four; blossom pyramid-shaped and flesh coloured, the segments very large, and upright; leaves grow generally by fours, linear, hairy and blunt ended.