SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, without the blossom; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves in umbels, by threes, hanging down and bright red; with the foot-stalks thrice the length of the blossom; blossoms nearly globular; leaves grow by threes, very broad, egg-shape-tapered, covered on the upper surface with hairs and rolled back at the edges.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, zig-zagged, very much branched, a foot high; branches in whorls; small branches few, nearly upright.
Leaves grow by threes, egg-shaped-tapered, clothed on the upper surface with hairs and convex, concave beneath and whitish, rolled back at the edge.
Flowers in the middle of the small branches in spikes, grow from the insertion of the leaves in umbels of threes, hanging down; foot-stalks coloured the length of the blossoms, with three small floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets egg-shaped, upright, concave, pressed to the stem, with green ends.
Blossom nearly globular, smooth and of a bright red; mouth narrowed, border upright, small.
Chives. Eight flat threads, the length of the blossom. Tips beardless, without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular, furrowed and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit concave.