Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret Mai, in Januar.

REFERENTIA.

1. Pagina inferior folii lente aucta. 2. Corolla cum Calyce. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina et Pistillum expansa, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, leaves in fours broad-linear edged with glandular hairs, flowers umbelled terminal.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, nearly a foot high, brown, extremely flexuose; with numerous branches, the oldest bent downwards, with ascending points.

Leaves in fours, expanded, or recurved, edged with hairs which are glandular at the points; with very short footstalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminal, umbelled, nodding, or cernuous, from 4 to 6 in each umbel.