SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers sessile, upright, and terminating the ends of the branches by fours, crowded together, flesh-coloured, and waved; leaves by fours, linear, and smooth.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, a span high, upright, and branching; the smaller branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.
Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, thickish, shining, and spreading, footstalks very short.
Flowers sit close in upright bunches, by fours, on the ends of the branches, scarce any footstalks.
Empalement four-leaved, the leaflets at the base are broadly egg-shaped, and toothed, sharp-pointed above; there are three floral leaves, awl-shaped, channelled, and pressed to the cup.
Blossom swelled out, and flesh-coloured, narrowed at the mouth, the segments are nearly heart-shaped, waved, spreading, and very large.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, and slightly furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered.