REFERENTIA.

1. Folium, auctum.
2. Calyx, et Corolla.
3. Calyx, auctus.
4. Stamina et Pistillum.
5. Stamina, lente aucta.
6. Germen, Stylus et Stigma, lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Heath, with bearded tips, within the blossom; shaft just without; blossoms egg-shaped and downy; leaves grow by fours, bowed, turned inwards, and hairy; stem hairy.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem shrubby, branching and hairy; the large and small branches are hairy; thread-shaped, and twiggy.

Leaves grow by fours, often by threes, blunt, hairy, turned inwards, bowed, and furrowed beneath; having very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.

Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels of two, three, or more, are very abundant, and purple; foot-stalks are hair-like, having three hairy floral-leaves on them.

Empalement. Cup of four leaves, which are hairy, rough, awl-shaped, coloured at the ends, and blunt.

Blossom egg-shaped, blunt, and hairy; the segments of the mouth are small and upright.