Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal: peduncles long: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot and a half high, twiggy and flexuose: branches between erect and spreading.

Leaves by fours, three-sided, slightly curved, pointed and shining.

Flowers terminate the ends of the branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom pitcher-shaped, red: segments of the border spreading, heart-shaped, flesh-coloured, and pointed: footstalks red, long, and furnished with three small floral leaves: empalement oblong, and pointed.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.