Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis subulatis, erectis, adpressis.

Corolla clavata, pollicaris, parum curvata, glabra, coccinea; oris laciniis expansis, maximis, subrecurvis.

Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheræ muticæ, subexsertæ.

Pistillum. Germen obovatum, sulcatum, apice concavum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma peltato-tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Decembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos. 2. Calyx, auctus. 3. Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen, Stylus et Stigma, Stigma auctum. 5. Germen auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, just without the blossom; flowers grow from the base of the leaves close to the stem in whorles, horizontally, and are scarlet; blossom club-shaped, an inch long, rather recurved; leaves grow by sixes in general, linear and spreading.