Floret a mense Maio in Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
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1. Folium. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamen auctum. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. |
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips, within the blossom: flowers cylindrical, terminal, and two-coloured: leaves by threes, obtuse: branches straddling: stem low.
DESCRIPTION.
A dwarf shrub, the large and small branches numerous, straddling, and mostly covered with leaves.
Leaves by threes, linear, obtuse, straight, smooth, flat on the upper surface, furrowed beneath, and rounded at the edges.
Flowers grow mostly by threes, spreading, or nodding; footstalks short, coloured, and furnished with three coloured floral leaves; blossoms cylindrical, flesh-coloured; segments of the border of a pale green, and upright: the leaflets of the cup are ovate, coloured, and pressed to the blossom.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, two-coloured, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.