Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Idem subtus, lente auctum. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina et Pistillum. 5. Stamina a Pistillo liberata. 6. Anthera unica lente aucta. 7. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 8. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with tips two-horned at the base, and just without the blossom: flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, are pitcher-shaped, and purple: footstalks long: leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, and glandular: branches numerous, and flexuose.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high: the smaller and larger branches are numerous, flexuose, and between erect and spreading.

Leaves by threes, spathula-shaped, flat on their upper surface, keeled beneath, and whitish: with glandular margins rolled back.

Flowers grow near the ends of the branches, singly, from the axillæ of the leaves: footstalks long, coloured, and glandular.