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At the commencement of this Monograph the extent of this elegant tribe of plants appeared to be circumscribed within a small compass, and we calculated upon one volume enshrining the whole Genus. The termination of that volume left a residuum of sufficient magnitude to complet...
At the commencement of this Monograph the extent of this elegant tribe of plants appeared to be circumscribed within a small compass, and we calculated upon one volume enshrinin...
2. Part 2HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom; the threads are flat, very long, and closed together; blossom cylindrical, of a yellowish white; the segments of the mouth are o...
3. Part 3FOLIA irregulariter verticillata, sed sæpius 5, 6, vel septena, horizontalia, vel parum recurvata et flexuosa, apicibus incurvis, rigida, et ad margines asperiuscula, sordide vi...
4. Part 4HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; flowers sessile, upright, and terminating the ends of the branches by fours, crowded together, flesh-coloured, and waved; leaves...
5. Part 5HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom; the shaft just without; flowers grow in whorls, hanging down, of a swelled cylinder shape pinched in at the base; leaves by fours,...
6. Part 6HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: leaves grow by fours: flowers yellow, of a cylinder shape, and large: the large branches are of a pyramidal form: the small branche...
7. Part 7BLOSSOM large, swelled, of an ovate form, smooth, and shining; narrowed at the mouth, which is of a pale flesh-colour: the segments of the border are equal, spreading, flesh-col...
8. Part 8FLOWERS grow at the extremity of the smaller branches, mostly by threes, hanging down. The footstalks are long, of a red colour, with three small floral leaves pressed to them.