SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base and within the blossom; blossoms bellied, segments nearly upright, flowers upright, grow in small heads, terminating the branches, and light purple coloured; leaves grow by fours, are linear and small.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem about a span high, upright and shrubby, branches twiggy and straddling; the upper small branches grow in whorles, and are very numerous.
Leaves grow by fours, are thin, linear, smooth, a little turned back, with small foot-stalks, pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the branches in clustered small heads, are very numerous, and grow nearly upright; foot-stalks hair-like, the length of the flowers, having three floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, leaflets lance-shaped, smooth and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom bellied, small, of a pale purple, the mouth a little narrowed, segments egg-shaped, between upright and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, short. Tips two horned and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud nearly globular and furrowed, having honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, upright, within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.