Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers terminal: blossoms quadrangular: stem erect.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot and a half high, shrubby, upright, and branching: the large and small branches long.

Leaves numerous, scattered, sword-shaped, curved, ascending and spreading, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches in threes, fours, or fives, erect or spreading: blossom two-coloured, white above and flesh-coloured beneath, tubular, squared, with four valves or seams: segments of the border rolled back.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of April till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement. 2. A Blossom spread out. 3. A Chive. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.