Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Novembre ad Februarium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et bracteæ. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Eadem expansa. 5. Stamen lente auctum. 6. Pistillum, stigmate diducto, lenteque aucto. 7. Germen auctum. 8. Ramulus cum involucro florum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with crested tips within the blossom, blossoms terminal, headed, ventricose, leaves in threes three-sided and glaucous.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem stout, shrubby, a foot high, branched, with the branches spreading, and a brownish bark.

Leaves in threes, three-sided, linear, glaucous, a little incurved, and rather erect.

Flowers headed, terminal, cernuous; peduncles coloured, furnished with three floral leaves also coloured, and a many-leaved involucrum; with its little leaves ovate, acute, deep rose-coloured, with green points.