SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, leaves in fours linear smooth; flowers in fours nearly sessile in level-topped bunches.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose, with brown bark, and numerous spreading branches.
Leaves in fours, erect, linear, smooth, shining, with longish footstalks.
Flowers terminal, in fours, nearly sitting, forming level-topped bunches.
Empalement four-leaved, double, pressed to the blossom, with leaflets ovate-acute, with skinny, greenish, irregularly serrulated margins.
Blossom very white, pellucid, egg-cone-shaped, with segments nearly egg-shaped, and recurved.
Chives, eight hair-like threads. Tips beardless within the blossom, brown.
Pointal included in the blossom. Seed-bud turban-shaped. Summit four-cornered.