SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom; the shaft just without; blossoms egg-shaped, the segments of the border oval, very large, and upright; flowers grow in bunches, and terminate the branches; the footstalks an inch long; the leaves grow scattered obliquely, appearing cut off at the ends.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows a foot high; the branches simple, long, and thread-shaped.
Leaves grow scattered, sometimes by fours, linear, arched, appearing toothed by small glands at the edge, smooth, seeming cut off at the ends, and with very slender footstalks.
Flowers numerous, growing in umbels at the end of the branches; the footstalks thrice the length of the flower, coloured, clammy, and having three linear floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets very small, linear, clammy, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom almost globular, purple, the size of a pea; the segments of the border very large and upright.
Chives. Eight flat threads, linear, bent inward at the points; tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed; eight glands at the base of the seed-bud; shaft cylindrical, and just without the blossom; summit four-cornered.