bail 
campanulate, the lobes 1.5 mms long; stamens and style included; capsule 
“PY eRe PYRE A 
2. Pe empetriformis (Sm.) Don. Purple Heather. A low shrub commonly . 
forming dense heather-like patches, 30-50 am. tall, the foliage deep green, 
the branches ascending at the tips, bark grey, roughened by old leaf-bases, | 
at length smooth; leaves densely crowded, 10-15 mm. long, 1-5 mm. wide, blunt, 
dark green and shining, spreading, the margins strongly but closely revolute, 
only the midvein showing beneath, obscurely glandular-serrulate; flowers 
several from the uppermost axils, erect, forminge-a—false-umbelp the pedicels 
2 cm. long, slender, glandular, purplish red; sepals 1.5<-2 mm. long, ovate, 
obtuse, reddish, glabrous, finely ciliate; corolla 5 mm. long, rose-purple, 
subglobose, 5.5-4 mm. long, glandular, the valves opening from the apex. 
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. Frequent on the highest peaks in exposed places, rarely descending 
lower. 
