Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem a foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple.

Leaves by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long.

Flowers grow about the middle of the branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured: segments of the mouth large, revolute, and nearly white within.

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

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.