Erica armata Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, the whole, except the essential organs, more or less densely hispid and viscidulous, with stiff rigid gland-bearing hairs; leaves 4-nate, spreading, imbricate, subulate, acute, flat above, convex and sulcate beneath, puberulous as well as gland-hairy, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-7 at or near the ends of the branches, suberect; pedicels 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small, foliaceous; sepals narrow-ovate, acute, puberulous, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla suburceolate or tubular-inflated, viscose-puberulous, red, the whole 3 1/2 lin. long; limb very small, somewhat spreading but scarcely stellate; anthers subincluded, oblong, slightly curved backwards at the base, about 3/4 lin. long, aristate; awns 1/3-1/2 the length of the cell; ovary subturbinate, thinly puberulous.