Erica barbigeroides E.G.H.Oliv.

Plant 6-12 in. high, viscid and pilose on the branches, leaves and bracts; leaves 4-nate or irregular, varying from ascending or imbricate to recurving, 1 1/2-2 3/4 lin. long, 1/4-1/3 lin. broad, linear, obtuse; flowers 6-12 in dense terminal subglobose clusters; pedicels 1/4-2/3 lin. long; bracts 3, adpressed to the calyx, unequal, linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed at the base into rather long curved petioles, glandular and villous with white hairs which are usually longer than those on the other parts; middle bract larger than the rest, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; sepals free, 1/3-1 lin. long, linear or tapering from the base, acute, ciliate with very viscid glands, but without hairs; corolla rosy-purple; tube 2 lin. long, 4-angled, glabrous; lobes 1/3 lin. long, rounded, recurved or very spreading; stamens 4; anthers exserted, about 1-1 1/4 lin. long, oblong-linear, spurless at the very shortly subcuneate base; ovary ellipsoid, obtuse, obtusely 4-angled, glabrous; ovules 3-4 in each cell; style exserted, 2 1/4-2 1/2 lin. long, dilated at the base; stigma simple.