Erica blenna Salisb.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches stout, ascending, virgate or flexuous, puberulous or glabrous; leaves 3-nate, mostly erect and imbricate or subspreading, linear, subobtuse, flat above, keeled and sulcate beneath, glabrous, 4-5 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate ('here and there sublateral', Bentham); pedicels about 4 lin. long; bracts remote, lanceolate, about 3 lin. long; sepals ovate, acuminate, keel-tipped, thickish, subscarious, viscid, coloured or greenish, about 2 1/2 lin. long; corolla conical-ovoid or suburceolate-conical, much contracted to the mouth but only slightly constricted at the throat, very viscid, 4 1/2-6 1/2 lin. long, bright orange-red, the limb and some distance below it green; segments spreading or erect, about 1/8 the length of the tube; filaments broad at the base tapering upwards, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed well above the base, cuneate, subacute, scaberulous, ciliolate, about 1 lin. long, crested; pore 3/5-2/3 the length of the cell; crests quite free from the filament, subsemiorbicular in outline, deeply inciso-lacerate, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included, straight; stigma capitellate; ovary glabrous.