DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, shrubby, grows a foot and a half high; branches upright, stiff; small branches grow in whorles, upright.
Leaves grow by fours, smooth, blunt ended, smooth above, furrowed beneath, horizontally spreading; very short foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the branches, in umbels hanging down, umbels from 6 to 10 flowers; foot-stalks coloured, the length of the flowers having three floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets between lance and egg-shaped, concave, green, smooth and blunt.
Blossom nearly egg-shaped, smooth, of a blue purple, narrowed at the mouth, segments small, reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish, ribbed, glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of Portugal.
Flowers from August ’till November.