Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret ab Augusto in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Inferior pars Folii lente aucta. 2. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 3. Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 4. Stamina libera, antherâ unâ diductâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom; shaft without, and curved at the end. Blossoms tubularly club-shaped, curved, and hairy, of a red purple, green at the ends; flowers terminal; leaves by threes, and hairy.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, grows two feet high. Large branches few and upright; the small branches numerous, upright, and spreading.

Leaves by threes, linear, hairy, and furrowed beneath; footstalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminate the small branches, mostly by twos, and numerous; footstalks rather fleshy, having two small floral leaves.