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younger branches angular, and clothed with fine filky 
down, as are likewife the flower-ftalks, corollx, and backs 
of the leaves. The leaves are for the mofi; part ternate, 
covering the branches without any order, nearly felfile, 
the uppermoft, or thofe which grow on the weaker 
branches, being fimple. Their form is moftly elliptical, 
fometimes linear, always tipped with a minute very 
fliarp point, entire, revolute, three-nerved, and veiny, 
the lateral nerves running in a very peculiar manner 
very near the margin and along the fharp edge made 
by its being turned in ; upper furface bright green, 
fmooth, and naked. Stipula none. Spikes terminal, 
folitary, fliort and denfe, recurved, fimple. Flowers on 
fliortifli, alternate, folitary, fimple footftalks, all dire6led 
upwards, without braFlea, or involucra. Corolla rofe- 
coloured, filky without, clothed partly with very denfe 
eredl hairs within, and fplit about half way down into 
four fegments. Anther re fmall, yellowifli, feflile in the 
hollow tips of the corolla, as in other fpecies of this 
genus. Germeti oval, green ; Jlyle fmooth, red ; Jiigma 
hemifphaerical, fmooth. Follicle oval, black, tubercu- 
lated, deftitute of hair or down, brown within. Seeds 
two, fiattifli, attached by a very fliort wing to the upper 
end of the follicle. 
There are three very remarkable varieties of this 
fpecies, viz. 
a minor. This is its mofi: frequent appearance, and is 
what we liave principally reprefented in the figure. 
