Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Corolla varietatis profundæ. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow in clusters: leaves scattered: stem shrubby and erect.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot and half high, upright, branching: the smaller branches simple.

Leaves by fives or sixes, numerous, scattered, linear, pointed, and ascending.

Flowers at the ends of the branches, nearly terminal, and clustered: blossom cylindrical, sweet-scented, and of a pale purple colour: segments of the border recurved.