Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliola lanceolata, pilis longis ferrugineis ad apices.

Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata; ima pars carnea, summa saturate purpurea, ore arctata; laciniis acutis, patentibus.

Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.

Pistillum. Germen clavatum. Stylus inclusus. Stigma tetragonum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maio in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers flask-shaped, growing in horizontal whorls, flesh-coloured, and clammy; leaves mostly by fours, crowded, and beset with long rusty-coloured hairs.