Erica aghillana Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, apparently 6-8 in. high; branches subglabrous, channelled, pale brown; leaves 4-nate, the upper erect and adpressed, the lower spreading; or squarrose, linear, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, the younger ciliate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 1-2 in each whorl of leaves towards the ends of the branches, forming a pseudo-raceme; pedicels about 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, minute, hairy; sepals narrow-lanceolate, obtuse, pubescent, foliaceous, reddish, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate-campanulate, mouth slightly, or not at all, contracted, the younger tetragonous, the older becoming round, glabrous, red, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long; segments erect, obtuse, rounded, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, slightly incurved, scabrid, nearly 2/3 lin. long; pore 1/4 the length of the cell, muticous; style well exserted, stoutish; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous, lobed, pale.