Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves grow by fours, fringed, oval, rather curved, spreading, concave beneath, glandular above; foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, nodding; foot-stalks covered with hairs, longer than the leaves, leaflets distant from the blossom.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets spathula-shaped, bearded, glandularly hairy, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy, viscous, segments of the mouth spreading.

Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, and just without the blossom.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August, till November.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. A Flower. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives detached from the Pointal; one tip magnified. 5. The Pointal, the Summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 29]