SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips within the blossom, flowers lateral chiefly in threes bowing nearly globose, with the segments erect-incurved, leaves in threes awl-shaped and bent backwards.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, half a foot high and upwards, flexuose, with branches erect, and spreading.
Leaves, in threes, awl-shaped, bent backwards, with short footstalks pressed to the stems.
Flowers lateral, chiefly in threes, bowing, showy; the peduncles almost twice as long as the flowers, with three distant, coloured, floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaves egg-acuminated, concave, and incurved.
Blossom somewhat globular, of a fiery colour, with segments erect-incurved.
Chives. Eight, hair-like; tips crested within the blossom.
Pointal. Germen turban-shaped; shaft within the blossom; summit four-cornered.