Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with tips two-horned on the upper part, within the blossom: flowers terminal, grow by fours, long and slender: leaves by threes: stem slender.

DESCRIPTION.

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

Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, and spreading.

Flowers grows by fours at the ends of the small branches: footstalks very short, and furnished with three awl-shaped floral leaves: blossoms tubular, long, slender, and of a red colour: segments of the border spreading, equal and white on the upper surface.