SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips within the blossom: flowers grow by threes, are two-coloured, clammy, nodding, and nearly round: leaves by threes.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, a foot and a half high: the branches grow by threes in whorls.
Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath: footstalks long.
Flowers grow sideways mostly by threes, nodding and showy: footstalks coloured, and furnished with three coloured floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved: the leaflets are ovate, coloured, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom nearly round, very glutinous, and shining, of a gold colour: the segments of the border are upright, and of a deep green colour.
Chives eight hair-like threads. Tips crested, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.