Heisteria
(named after Laurence Heister, 1683-1758, Professor of Botany at Helmstadt). Partridge Pea; Pois-Perdrix. SYN. Hesioda. ORD. Olacineae. This genus comprises about ten species of glabrous trees or shrubs, one from Western tropical Africa and the rest from tropical America. Flowers small, sessile or pedicellate, in the axils of the leaves. Leaves entire, coriaceous. Probably the only species yet introduced is the one described below. It is a stove evergreen tree, thriving in a compost of loam, sand, and peat. Firm cuttings will root in sand, in brisk bottom heat.
H. coccinea (scarlet). fl. white, small, twin or numerous, axillary; calyx dark purple or scarlet. Winter. l. alternate, entire, lanceolate, rounded at the base. h. 15ft. West Indies, 1822.