Erica acuta Andrews

Erect, probably 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, crowded, subrecurved-spreading, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate or setaceous-acuminate, keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels thickened upwards, viscous-pubescent, 3 lin. long; bracts varying from subapproximate to subremote, lanceolate-acuminate, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with a strong wrinkled incurved keel throughout its entire length, produced into a rather long spreading setiform point, scarious, subviscid, margin entire or sublacerate, coloured, nearly 2 lin. long, about as long as (or a little exceeding) the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, throat contracted (in age becoming, by the swelling of the ovary, widened, and the tube more conical, as in Eurystoma), reddish, about 2 lin. long; segments suberect in dried specimens, probably spreading in life, semiovate, obtuse, the length of the tube; filaments slender, tapering upwards; anthers included, subterminal, dorsifixed at or near the base; cells bipartite but not much spreading, subcuneate-oblong with an oblique ascending base, subacute, a little over 1/2 lin. long, crested; pore about 3/5 the length of the cell; base of the crests affixed considerably above the base of the cells, broad-lanceolate, acute, pendulous, toothed at the apex, a little over 1/2 the cell in length; style included; stigma capitellate, small; ovary glabrous.