Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, upright and branching: the branches nearly simple.

Leaves mostly by fours, linear, spreading, undulate, and pointed.

Flowers grow in whorls near the ends of the branches, standing horizontally; blossom nearly cylinder-shaped: segments of the border recurved, heart-shaped, and white.

Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. Discoloured variety of Erica Metulæflora. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamen and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

The Ericas radiata and metulæflora, figured in the 1st and 3rd volume of this work, are scions from a hybrid production of an Erica known by the specific title of spuria. Our figure represents an elegant variety of the E. radiata, raised from Cape seed at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson in the autumn of 1826.