Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves grow by fours, linear, smooth, pointed; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers terminal, solitary, forming a spike near the summit of the stem; scarcely any footstalks.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, fringed, a little reflexed at the ends.

Blossom tubular, downy, gouty at the base, segments of the mouth, spathula shaped and reflexed.

Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips just without the blossom and beardless.

Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, furrowed, surrounded at the base and top with glands. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit blunt.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from March till June.

REFERENCE.

1. A Flower. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The Seed-bud magnified. 5. The Pointal natural size[Pg 129].