Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Folium lente auctum. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with minutely bearded tips, within; shaft just within the blossom: flowers grow in terminal umbels: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped and ascending.

Leaves by threes, curved, awl-shaped, and sharp-pointed.

Flowers terminate the branches, mostly in umbels of 3 to 6: empalement pressed to the blossom: footstalks long: blossom pitcher-shaped, erect, and spreading, of a red purple colour: segments of the border equal and spreading.