Erica amphigena Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, about 1 ft. high; branches straight or spreading; branchlets mostly decurved at the apex, pubescent; leaves imbricate and erect, or sometimes more lax and spreading, linear, keeled, subobtuse, 2-3 lin. long, a few floral scarious and bract-like; flowers subcapitate or clustered, at length mostly cernuous; bracts oblong, keel-tipped, a little shorter than the sepals; sepals obovate-oblong, subobtuse, keeled or keel-tipped, about 2 lin. long, reaching to a little below the apex of the corolla-limb; corolla narrow-ovoid, white, 2 1/2 lin. long; segments subulate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, nearly equal in length to the tube; anthers subterminal or sublateral; cells deeply partite, narrow-oblong, obtusely rounded, about 3/4 lin. long, decurrent aristate; awns decurrent for less than 1/2 their length, then divaricately spreading, the whole from 1/3-1/2 the length of the cells.