Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Aprili in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers cylindrical, hairy, and terminating the small branches: leaves by threes, linear.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, upright, and spreading: smaller branches numerous.

Leaves by threes, linear, furrowed beneath, with longish footstalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches by threes: peduncles coloured, with two small floral leaves pressed to them: blossom cylindrical and hairy, purple at the base, and white at the upper part: segments of the border ovate and spreading: leaves of the empalement lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.