Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ.

Pistillum. Germen subglobosum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Maio in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 3. Calyx, lente auctus. 4. Stamina, et Pistillum. 5. Stamina valdé aucta. 6. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 7. Germen, auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with crested tips, within the blossom, shaft without; flowers grow in a close spike, sweet scented and slightly flesh-coloured; blossoms pitcher-shaped, with the segments very large and spreading; leaves grow by sixes, hairy, blunt, and spreading.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem weak, thread-shaped, a foot high; the larger and smaller branches are thread-shaped and loose.