REFERENTIA.
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1. Inferior pars Folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla. 4. Flos varietatis pallidæ. 5. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 6. Pistillum et Germen, stigmate lente aucto. 7. Germen lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom: flowers grow singly from the axillæ of the leaves, pitcher-shaped, of a purple colour, and with very long footstalks; leaves by fours; branches numerous; stem low.
DESCRIPTION.
An elegant dwarf shrub very branching; the small and large branches are flexuose, and between erect and spreading.
Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers are numerous, and grow singly from the axillæ of the leaves about the middle of the smaller branches, and often terminate them: the footstalks are very long, coloured, and furnished at the base with three floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; the leaflets are ovately pointed, and finely sawed.
Blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, smooth, and shining: the segments of the border are equal, round, spreading, and nearly reflexed.