Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with crested tips, within the blossom; flowers lateral, terminal, bell-shaped, and nodding: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, a foot and a half high: smaller branches mostly by threes, hanging down at the base of the plant, in the middle spreading out, and ascending towards the top.

Leaves by threes, thick, blunt, straight, and furrowed beneath, with roundish edges.

Flowers grow at the ends of the larger and smaller branches, in irregular umbels, nodding all one way. Blossom bell-shaped and red; segments of the border spreading. Empalement lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.

Seed-bud turban-shaped, two-coloured, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.