Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret ab Octobre, in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla. 2. Calyx auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 5. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers grow in small bundles about the middle of the branches, rather upright; blossoms nearly cylindrical, tapered to the base, flesh-coloured, downy; leaves grow mostly by sixes, smooth and spreading.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, shrubby, grows three feet high, pyramidally, smooth; branches few, upright; small branches whorled, nearly simple, between upright and spreading.

Leaves grow mostly by sixes, smooth, linear, spreading, with very short foot-stalks.

Flowers grow bundled about the middle of the branches, terminal, and in umbels, 3-10 flowers in each umbel; foot-stalks very short; floral leaves awl-shaped, pressed to the cup, fringed.