Outer cup three-leaved; leaflets between lance and egg-shape, pointed; the outer one the largest.
Inner cup of five divisions, upright, a little longer than the outer; leaflets lance-shaped and pointed.
Blossom one petal, salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, hairy within; the border spreading with five divisions, the segments of an oblong egg-shape.
Chives. Ten thread-shaped threads the length of the tube. Tips oblong, and tapered.
Pointal. Seed-bud globular and hairy. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit blunt, and slightly five-cleft.
Seed-vessel. Capsule nearly globular, flattened, five-sided, five cells, and five valves.
Seeds many, roundish.
Receptacle large, of five divisions.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Epigæa caulibus procumbentibus; foliis cordato-ovatis, integerrimis, reticulatis; corollis hypocrateriformibus.