Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses Maii, Junii, et Julii.

REFERENTIA.

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

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers hairy and transparent: leaves by fours: stem upright, and shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, shrubby, upright: the smaller branches numerous, short, and hairy.

Leaves by fours, linear, with very short hairs, and ascending.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches, forming a long spike: blossom club-shaped, slightly curved, an inch long, hairy and transparent, white and swelled at the mouth, cylindrical and purple at the base: segments of the border between erect, spreading, and revolute.