SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, just within the blossom and club-shaped; flowers terminate the branches by threes; blossoms bell-shaped, purple, tube very short, with very large spreading segments; leaves grow by threes oval, concave, fringed and flaccid.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, grows two feet high; large branches thread-shaped, whorled; small branches numerous, twiggy and spreading.
Leaves grow by threes, oval, concave, fringed, blunt, spreading; with very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers terminate the small branches by threes and very numerous; foot-stalks very short, having three floral leaves pressed to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets eliptic, concave, fringed and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bell-shaped, purple; tube very short; segments egg-shaped, concave, very large and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved. Tips beardless, club-shaped, just within the blossom, the length of the threads.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular, furrowed, downy and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.