Erica alexandri Guthrie & Bolus

Subdecumbent, 10-13 in. high; branches numerous, ascending, weak and somewhat straggling, leafy, dark red, pubescent and also hispid with long gland-tipped hairs; leaves 4-nate, spreading or squarrose, linear to broad-elliptical, blunt, pubescent or glabrescent, ciliate with long glandular hairs, about 1 lin. long; flowers terminal, sub-4-nate or umbellate; pedicels slender, red, thinly pilose, 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, foliaceous, spreading, gland-hairy; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, scarious, keeled, glandular-pilose on the keel only, ciliolate with short sessile brown glands, 1 lin. long; corolla urceolate, well contracted at the mouth, viscid, glabrous, 2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. wide; limb spreading, about 1/3 the length of the tube; filaments broad, subequal; anthers subexserted, dorsifixed considerably above the base, oblong, obtuse, smooth, glabrous, about 3/5 lin. long, crested; pore 1/2-2/3 the length of the cell; crests semiorbicular, lacerate, very little longer or wider than the base and sides of the cells; style slender, long exserted; stigma capitate; ovary hispid, chiefly on the apex.