Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Anthera una, summitate lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. 5. Flos varietatis monstrosæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without: flowers terminate the branches by threes: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, shrubby, upright, and branching: small branches numerous and long.

Leaves on the stem by threes, linear obtuse, and downy: those on the smaller branches are more upright, and hirsute.

Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by threes, nearly drooping: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, of a pale flesh colour, and ribbed: segments of the border of a whitish yellow.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.