SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips; shaft within the blossoms, which are pitcher-shaped, purple, and smooth; cup coloured, and hairy; flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, hanging down, in whorles; leaves grow by fours, linear, blunt, and hairy.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, taking different directions; the small and large branches are smooth, thread-shaped, and rather upright.
Leaves grow by fours, blunt, hairy, spreading, linear, furrowed beneath; foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, whorled, mostly solitary, nodding; foot-stalks the length of the flowers, coloured, having three hairy floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets hairy, coloured, and green ends.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, smooth, purple, segments upright.
Chives. Eight threads, hair-like. Tips bearded, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly round, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, within the blossom. Summit headed.