Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Pagina inferior folii, lente aucta. 2. Flos. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Eadem expansa. 6. Stamen lente auctum. 7. Pistillum, stigmate lente auctum. 8. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, flowers chiefly twinned pendulous bell-shaped pubescent, and leaves linear in fours also pubescent.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, near a foot high, flexuose, with flexuose, spreading branches, and with the little flower-bearing branches pendulous.

Leaves in fours, linear, pubescent, furrowed beneath, with short footstalks, pressed to the branches; the old leaves bent downwards.

Flowers terminal in small, lateral, pendulous, branches; chiefly in pairs; the peduncles coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves near the empalement.