Erica caledonica A.Spreng.

Apparently of dwarf habit, entirely glabrous; branches ascending, scarred with the short prominent leaf-cushions, the ultimate fastigiate and crowded; leaves 3-nate, erect, sexfariously, densely and uniformly imbricate, ovate, acute, concave, thick, sulcate, 2 1/2 lin. long by 1 lin. or less broad; flowers 3-nate, somewhat clustered; pedicels 3-4 lin. long, exceeding the sepals; bracts remote, the two upper linear-spathulate, acute, the lower absent or replaced by a bract-like floral leaf at the base; sepals broadly obovate, keel-tipped and apiculate, very concave and rigid, scarious-edged, about 1 1/2-lin. long, or 1/2 the length of the corolla-tube; corolla urceolate, 3 1/2-4, lin. long; segments stellate-patent, ovate, subacute, about 1/4 the length of the tube; anthers broad-oblong, suddenly tapering to a subacute apex, 2/5 lin. long, crested; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; crests affixed about the middle of the cell, not spreading, narrow-lanceolate, incised, in length 3/4 of the cell; ovary columnar, glabrous.