Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with tips minutely two-horned just without the blossom: flowers sessile, and hanging down: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem low, upright, and shrubby: smaller branches mostly by threes.

Leaves by threes, smooth, nearly three-sided, curved, and pointed.

Flowers grow by threes at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging down: footstalks none: cup double, the outer one three-leaved; blossom green, clammy, and skittle-shaped: segments of the border upright.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.