SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, just within the blossom, the pointal without; the blossoms are nearly cylindrical, ribbed, and variously coloured; leaves grow by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, erect, tapering to the top; the branches are nearly simple.
Leaves grow by threes, linear, awl-shaped, flat on the upper, and furrowed on the under surface, smooth, and of a deep green; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
The Flowers are numerous, bending a little downward, terminating the small branches by threes or fours, near the top of the stem; the foot-stalks being very short.
Empalement. The Cup is double, the inner is four-leaved, which are orange-coloured, furrowed at the point, and pressed to the blossom; the outer is three-leaved, shorter than the inner, and greenish at the point.
The Blossom is nearly cylindrical, a little narrowed at the middle, ribbed, the lower part orange colour, the mouth greenish, whose segments are reflexed.
Chives. Eight threads, whose lower parts are spatula-shaped, and upper linear, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and almost within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-vessel globe-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered and greenish.