Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 2

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Julio, in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flos, magnitudine naturali. 2. Calyx, lente auctus. 3. Corolla, magnitudine naturali. 4. Idem, aucta. 5. Stamina, et Pistillum. 6. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, aucta. 7. Pistillum. 8. Idem, lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom; flowers terminate the branches by fours; the leaflets of the cup are spathula-shaped and sawed at the margin; segments of the blossom halbert-shaped, upright and dark-purple; leaves grow by fours, obtuse, and horizontal.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, near a foot high, branching; branches grow horizontal and stiff; smaller branches few, like the larger ones.

Leaves grow by fours, obtuse, linear, horizontal, smooth; foot-stalks very small and pressed to the stem.

Flowers grow in umbels at the end of the smaller branches, nodding, and by fours, often by threes; foot-stalks very short, with three spathula-shaped, tiled floral leaves.