Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Leaves by fours, smooth, linear, and blunt-ended.

Flowers terminate the branches singly, spreading out, and forming a scattered spike. Footstalks very short, and furnished with three floral leaves.

Empalement four-leaved: the leaflets at the base are ovate, toothed, and awl-shaped at the end.

Blossom curved, club-shaped, an inch long, red, with a whitish border; segments expanded.

Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom.

Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, without. Summit hollow.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till January.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf shown from the under side magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom. 4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. [Pg 38]5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.