Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 4

by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom: leaves by threes: flowers white and terminal.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, a foot or more high, upright and bushy.

Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, small, smooth and straight.

Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by threes, nearly drooping: blossom globular, white, and covered with soft hairs.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of April till June.