Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ bicornes, sub-exertæ.

Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Februario in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Flos. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with tips two-horned at their base, and just without the blossom: flowers tubular, terminating the flowers in irregular umbels of an unequal purple colour: leaves awl-shaped, obtuse, and harshly haired: stem upright, a foot high.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby: branches loose, and straddling; smaller branches numerous, and between erect and spreading.