The stem is decumbent, and suffruticose, from a foot to 
a foot and a half in height; the young shoots are purplish 
green. Leaves bright green, lanceolate, smooth, except 
on the under surface of the younger ones, nerveless, entire. 
Flowers solitary, in terminal panicles. Petals multiplied, 
dentate, of a delicate rich purplish crimson; the inner 
ones spotted at the base of the limb. ace 
