SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips, within the blossom; shaft without; flowers terminate the branches by threes; cup double, white; blossoms oblong-egg-shaped, of a very clear white, and narrowed at the mouth; leaves grow by threes, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, grows six feet high, and more; branches upright, and few; smaller branches numerous, short.
Leaves grow by threes, smooth, on the older branches broader and blunt, on the younger linear, pointed and smaller; very short foot-stalks.
Flowers grow by threes at the end of the smaller branches, hanging down, and white, forming as it were a spike near the top of the stem; hardly any foot-stalks.
Empalement. Cup double, the outer four-leaved; the leaflets oblong, skinny, obtuse, turned back at the top, loose and coloured; the inner with leaflets like the other but twice the size.
Blossom oblong egg-shaped, tapered, smooth, narrowed at the mouth, of a very clear white; segments reflexed, blunt.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips within the blossom, bearded and black.
Pointal. Seed-bud oblong, smooth, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, a little curved. Summit tubular.