Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers pitcher-shaped and terminal: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot high, upright, shrubby: large and small branches slender.

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

Flowers terminate the branches in umbels of four to eight: footstalks short: blossom pitcher-shaped, and white: segments of the border large and spreading.