REFERENTIA.
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1. Calyx auctus. 2. Flos. 3. Stamina et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 5. Pistillum, Stigma auctum. 6. Germen, lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips, just without the blossom; shaft without the blossom, curved at the end; blossoms tubularly club-shaped, downy, blood-coloured, squared at the base, green at the ends; flowers solitary, terminal; leaves grow by threes, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, large branches few and upright; smaller branches numerous, upright and spreading.
Leaves grow by threes, linear, smooth, spreading, furrowed beneath; foot-stalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the small branches, grow solitary, forming a long bunch at the top of the branches; foot-stalks rather fleshy, having three small floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, squared; leaflets pointed egg-shaped, bordered, clammy on the inside, pressed to the blossom.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, downy, blood-colour, green-ended, squared at the base, clammy; segments of the border upright, rather turned inwards.