active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

“ Tips beardless, without the blossom, very long, and tapering into filaments which are flat, and pressed together. Flowers grow by twos and threes at the ends of the smaller branches, hanging down, forming a beautiful spike near the middle of the larger branches. Empalement double, and coloured, the outer one is three-leaved; the leaflets are broadly egg-shaped; the inner one is four-leaved, and larger than the outer. Blossom cone-shaped, near an inch long, smooth, and of a bright red colour; segments of the border are pressed to the threads. Leaves by threes, obtuse, and rather downy. ”

“ Flores plures, terminales, simpliciter verticillati, conferti, viscosi. Pedunculi longi, curvati. Corolla cylindrico-clavata, pollicaris, nitida, ima parte profunde carnea, apice viridi, ore arctata; laciniis rectis. Folia octona, linearia, obtusa, supra scabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petiolos longos capillares. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, tripedalis. ”

“ The difficulty of preserving many of this fine tribe is still a subject of general complaint, and by no means easy to be remedied where the situation is low, as the great enemies of the Ericas are the fogs, which invariably gravitate towards the marshes and low grounds ”