Erica argentea Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; stem and branches flexuous; branchlets slender, the ultimate and floriferous generally decurved; leaves mostly erect and adpressed or incurved, imbricate or often only as long as the internodes, oblong or elliptic, acute, thick, flat above, convex and glossy below, glabrous, generally 1/2-1 (sometimes 1 1/2) lin. long; flowering branchlets subdistant and somewhat scanty; pedicels under 1/2 lin. long; flowers corolline; bracts approximate, elliptic, small; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, rigid, thick with hyaline margin, about 1 lin. long; corolla obconic, about 1 1/2 lin. long; segments continuous with the tube, semiovate, subacute, somewhat shorter than the tube; anthers included, manifest, lateral, narrow-oblong, 1/2 lin. long, incurved, obtuse, pale brown, shortly aristate; pore 1/6-1/5 the length of the cell; awns subulate, about 1/6 the length of the cell; style exserted, very slender; stigma subsimple; ovary pubescent or glabrous.