Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers grow in crowded spikes: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: the smaller branches are numerous, short, and downy.

Leaves by fours, linear, downy, and blunt-ended.