REFERENTIA.
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1. Calyx cum bracteis lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamina et Pistillum antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lanatum, lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, flowers in whorled spikes ribbed and viscous, leaves in fives, sixes or sevens, and rigid, with rough margins.
DESCRIPTION.
A small shrub, two feet high, the stem flexuose-erect, with ascending, whorled branches, and lesser branches simple, rigid, and irregularly furrowed.
Leaves irregularly whorled, but chiefly in fives, sixes, or sevens, horizontal, or a little recurved and flexuose, with incurved points, rigid, and at the margins roughish, of a dingy green colour, above marked by an elevated line, beneath channelled, with very long foot-stalks pressed into the little furrows of the branchlets.
Flowers almost terminal in a spike densely whorled, horizontal, with peduncles pubescent, and furnished with three floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets downwards egg-shaped, but upwardly far acuminated, viscous, pubescent, and furrowed beneath.
Blossom tubular, short, inflated, resembling an Echium, deep flesh-colour, ribbed, and viscous, with spreading, rounded segments.