REFERENTIA.
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1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ diductâ et lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, leaves in fours, ciliated and aristated, and terminal umbelled flowers.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem near a foot high, branched, with the branches erect.
Leaves in fours, recurved, broad-linear, ciliated and aristated, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers showy, terminal, in nodding umbels of 6 to 10 flowers; peduncles coloured, with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets linear-lanced, keeled and ciliated.
Blossom ovate-club-shaped, inflated, polished, and of a glowing red colour, narrowed at the mouth, with roundish segments rolled back.