Empalement. Cup three-leaved, leaflets awl-shaped, downy, permanent, and of a rusty iron colour.
Blossom, one petal, wheel-shaped, woolly, and five-cleft; segments egg-shaped, sharp pointed and incurved at the point.
Chives. Threads five, short, upright, fixed to the base of the seed-bud. Tips upright, two-lobed at the back, and two pores at the point.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, above. Shaft small, thread-shaped, upright. Summit obsolete.
Seed-vessel. Capsule roundish, above, three-furrowed, three cells, three valves, partitions from the middle of the valves.
Seeds numerous, roundish.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Lasiopetalum foliis sublinearibus, obtusis, inequaliter sinuatis, supra glabris subtus lanuginosis; floribus racemosis, axillaribus.
Woolly blossom with nearly linear leaves, blunt, unequally indented, smooth above, woolly beneath; flowers grow in long bunches from the insertion of the leaves into the stem.
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