active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews

“ Heath, with beardless tips, just within the blossom; leaves grow by fours, linear, and smooth; flowers sit close upon the ends of the branches, upright, and by fours; the leaves of the cup are skinny at the edge, and sawed as if torn. ”

“ Stem upright, grows more than two feet high and very stout; the branches grow in whorls, spreading and upright, seldom breaking into smaller branches, and like the stem.
Leaves grow by sixes, are linear, smooth, spread outward, and very long, the foot-stalks pressed to the stem.
Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, and an inch in length; the foot-stalks very short, with three floral leaves on them.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets are awl-shaped, broadest at the base, smooth, and pressed to the blossom. ”

“ Caulis fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, erectus, basi simplicissimus; rami verticillati, simplices, erecti.
Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, apice reflexa, mucronata, supra plana, subtus sulcata, unguicularia, petiolis adpressis.
Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, recti; verticilli alter alteri exsurgentes; pedunculi longi, bracteis tribus instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, acuminatis, carinatis, viscosis, adpressis. ”