Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, subinclusus. Stigma peltatum, concavum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Novembri ad Januarium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium. 2. Calyx. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and showy: leaves tremulous, spirally scattered, appearing cut off at the ends: branches simple.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, upright: the large and small branches simple and long.

Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and tapering into long hair-like footstalks.