REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx et Corolla.
2. Calyx lente auctus.
3. Stamina et Pistillum.
4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ.
5. Stylus et Stigma lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with beardless tips without the blossoms, and tapering into filaments, which are flat. The blossom is conical, of a blood colour, having the segments of the mouth upright, and pressed to the threads. The leaves grow by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem upright, a foot and a half high, rough, branching but little at the base. The smaller branches are scattered.

Leaves grow by threes, blunt-ended, rather downy, channelled underneath, having very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.

Flowers grow by twos and threes at the end of the smaller branches, hanging down, forming a beautiful spike near the middle of the larger branches. The foot-stalks are short, without floral leaves.

Empalement. Cup double, and coloured; the outer three-leaved, the leaves of a broad oval-shape, the ends greenish: the inner is four-leaved, broader and larger than the former.

Blossom cone-shaped, near an inch long, smooth, deep red; the segments of the mouth upright.