Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Januarii ad Maium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Antheræ et Pistillum. 3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot high: the large and smaller branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped.

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

Flowers terminate the smaller branches, mostly by fours, spreading: empalement and footstalks red: blossom skittle-shaped, transparent, white at first, then dying off a rose colour: segments of the border upright.