Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves in fours, linear, thin, smooth, erect, with minute foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers chiefly in fours in terminal heads, with capillary foot-stalks which are longer than the blossom, and furnished with three linear floral leaves.

Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets egg-lance-shaped, coloured, smooth, and pressed to the blossom.

Blossom small, rather globose, bright purple, with the mouth a little contracted, with its segments roundish, and between erect and spreading.

Chives eight hair-like threads; tips two-horned, within the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, purple, having honey-cups at the base; shaft thread-shaped, flexuose, within the blossom, purplish; summit four-cornered.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of February to May; and again from August to October.

REFERENCE.

1. The under-side of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Empalement magnified, 4. The Chives and Pointal detached from the Blossom, with one tip magnified. 5. The Pointal and Seed-bud magnified.[Pg 109]