Erica bracteolaris Lam.

Stout, 1 1/2 ft. or more high, entirely glabrous; branches ascending, often virgate, fastigiate; leaves 3-nate, adpressed, imbricate, or the lower as long as the internodes, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acute, sulcate, 2-3 lin. long; floral leaves sometimes dilated or even subsepaloid; flowers 3-nate, pseudo-capitate by close, packing in very short or arrested terminal branchlets; pedicels 1 lin. long; bracts, two approximate, oblanceolate, acuminate, the third basal, longer and broader; sepals spathulate, unguiculate, keel-tipped, subobtuse, apiculate, with a rather broad diaphanous margin, about 4 lin. long, scarcely reaching to the top of the corolla-tube; corolla subtubular, almost equal or a little inflated above the base, 3 1/2-5 lin. long; segments ovate, acute, scarcely 1/3 the length of the tube; anthers broad-oblong, very obtuse, the length 13/4 times the width, muticous or very minutely subdenticulate at the base; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; appendages not reaching nearly to the base of the cell; stigma capitate; ovary cylindrical, lobed.