SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with bearded tips within the blossom; flowers are tubular, very short, sessile, of a yellow colour, and terminating the smaller branches; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth: stem shrubby, slender, and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot and a half high, slender, shrubby, and upright.
Leaves by fours, linear, obtuse, and smooth, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath.
Flowers numerous, sessile, and terminating the smaller branches, mostly by twos, in a horizontal direction; near the end of the larger branches; the flowers are crowded together on very short branches, forming a spike.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets are broadly egg-shaped, greenish at the point, and paler beneath: with two floral leaves pressed to them.
Blossom jar-shaped, yellow, smooth, and narrowed at the mouth; the segments are roundish, and reflexed.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.