SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base within the blossom, the shaft without, blossom nearly cylindric, with its segments rolled back; leaves in fours.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, erect, two feet high, branched, with the little branches erect and nearly simple.
Leaves in fours, erect, linear, green, plane above, furrowed beneath, and very slightly pubescent.
Flowers bundled, terminal, in the lateral branches in threes and fours; the very short footstalks furnished with three ternate, bristle-shaped, floral leaves at the base.
Empalement four-leaved, the leaves pressed to the blossom, linear, dilated at the base, furrowed on the back, and in the magnifier ciliated.
Blossom nearly cylindrical, a little recurved, an inch long, of a bright brown orange colour, pubescent when magnified, with the segments very broad-ovate and rolled back.
Chives eight, hair-like, with the tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom, with the horns bifurcated when magnified.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped; shaft thread-shaped; summit four-cornered, higher than the tips.