Erica bibax Salisb.

Erect, virgate, 1-2 ft. high; branches and limb of the corolla puberulous, glabrous elsewhere; leaves 4-nate, linear-trigonous, erect-spreading, 2-4 lin. long; flowers solitary, spreading; bracts approximate, like the sepals but smaller; sepals lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious, shining, coloured, 3 1/2-4 1/2 lin. long; corolla clavate-tubular, curved or nearly straight, puberulous or velvety, dry, yellow with a paler limb, 7-10 lin. long; filaments sharply bent at a right angle at the junction with the thickened dorsally-projecting connective; anthers included, oblong, 3/4 lin. long, attached to the filament near the base of the cells, muticous; ovary glabrous.