Erica ardens Andrews

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches stoutish, subvirgate, puberulous or glabrous; leaves generally 3-(occasionally 4-)nate, erect to spreading, linear or linear-lanceolate, sulcate, somewhat thick, glossy, rigid, the younger minutely cartilagineo-serrulate, 3-5 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, or sometimes solitary and by arrest of the lateral branchlets pseudo-lateral; pedicels 3-5 lin. long; bracts remote or subapproximate, like the sepals but smaller; sepals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, keel-tipped, thick, coriaceous, viscid, coloured, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla ovoid-urceolate to globose-urceolate, thick, very viscid, at length much inflated, coral-red or white, 3-4 lin. long; segments suberect, broad, from 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; filaments more or less dilated, sometimes much so, lanceolate, much bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, scaberulous, obtuse, 3/4 lin. long, crested; pore 3/5-2/3 the length of the cell; crests lanceolate, deeply lacerate, more or less densely hairy, 1/3-3/5 the length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma small, capitellate; ovary glabrous.