Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Februarii in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, lente aucta. 4. Flos. 5. Calyx lente auctus. 6. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossom. Flowers hairy, pitcher-shaped, and white. Cup hairy, with green edges. Leaves by threes, rolled back at the edges, and hairy. Stem weak.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, flexuose, and of a purplish colour. The small and large branches are thread-shaped, and hairy.

Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, and rolled back at the edges; the older ones spreading, the younger ones ascending: the edges rough with long hairs.

Flowers grow at the extremity of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. The footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three small floral leaves pressed to them.