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younger branches angular, and clothed with fine filky 
down, as are likewife the flower-ftalks, corollie, and backs 
of the leaves. The /eaves are for the moft part ternate, 
covering the branches without any order, nearly feffile, 
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 
fharp 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. Stipuse none. Spikes terminal, 
folitary, fhort and denfe, recurved, fimple. Flowers on 
fhortifh, alternate, folitary, fimple footitalks, all directed 
upwards, without Jracfee or imvolucra. Corolla rofe- 
coloured, filky without, clothed partly with very dente 
erect hairs within, and fplit about half way down into 
four fegments. Authere fmall, yellowith, feffile in the 
hollow tips of the corolla, as in other f{pecies of this 
genus. Germcn oval, green; //y/e {mooth, red; /igma 
hemifpherical, fmooth. Fo//ic/e oval, black, tubercu- 
lated, deftitute of hair or down, brown within. Seeds 
two, flattifh, attached by a very fhort wing to the upper 
end of the follicle. 
There are three very remarkable varieties of this 
{pecies, Viz. 
« minor. ‘This is its moft frequent appearance, and is 
what we have principally reprefented in the figure. 
