Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves grow by fours, awl-shaped, sharp-pointed, smooth, harsh and upright; foot-stalks very short and pressed to the stem.

Flowers grow by threes at the end of all the smaller branches, nodding; the foot-stalks the length of the flowers, having three fringed floral leaves on them.

Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, fringed, and bristled at the end.

Blossom pitcher-shaped, purple, smooth, segments of the border pointed, a little reflexed.

Chives. Threads, hair-like, curved. Tips crested within the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud roundish and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from May, till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. A Flower of the natural size. 4. A Blossom. 5. The Chives and Pointal, magnified. 6. The Pointal and Seed-bud, magnified.[Pg 9]