Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Flores axillares, terminales: pedunculi longi, bracteis calyci adpressis: corolla campanulata, parva, carnea, subcernua: stylo filiformi, longo: stigmate peltato, magno.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla lente aucta. 3. Stamina lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, just without the blossom: shaft without, thread-shaped: summit shield-shaped and large: flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, and terminate the branches: leaves by threes: branches numerous: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem nearly a foot high: the large and small branches are numerous, thread-shaped, and ascending.

Leaves by threes, between erect and spreading, linear, straight and obtuse.