Erica baurii Bolus

Erect, 1 ft. or more high; branches ascending, slender, subflexuous, densely beset with rather rough subplumose setulose hairs, and numerous side branchlets bearing globose 4-flowored heads, 4-5 lin. in diameter; leaves 4-nate, erect or spreading, imbricate, linear-lanceolate, acute, more or less open-backed, roughly hispid-ciliate, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1/2 lin. long; bracts linear, subscarious, coloured, green-tipped, densely ciliate with long soft subplumose hairs, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; sepals like the bracts but narrower, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla globose-urceolate, well constricted at the throat, pubescent, 1 1/2 lin. long and nearly as wide; segments rounded, short, more spreading than in any other of this section; filaments slender, flexuous, 1 3/4 times the length of the anther; anthers included, narrow-elliptic, obtuse at either extremity, dark-coloured, over 1/4 lin. long, amply crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests as in the broader-crested forms of E. cooperi; style included, short; stigma capitellate or subsimple; ovary depressed-globose, wider than its length, hispidulous, very small.