Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 1

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves grow by fours, linear, hairy and blunt; with very short foot-stalks.

Flowers sit close upon the ends of the smaller branches, growing solitary, or by twos, or threes; the foot-stalks are very short, having three floral leaves pressed close to the cup.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets like the other leaves, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, an inch long, of a dirty yellow colour and hairy; the segments of the mouth rolled back.

Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved inwards at the points. Tips beardless, and without the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of August, till December.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf, magnified.

2. The Empalement, and Blossom.

3. The Empalement, magnified.

4. The Chives and Pointal, a tip magnified.

5. The Summit, magnified.