Erica cameronii L.Bolus

Small woody shrub up to about 15 cm (6 in) growing amongst and scrambling against rocks. Branches pubescent, glabrescent, with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves 3-nate, 6-10 mm long with petioles 2 mm long, erect-spreading, densely imbricate, sometimes incurved, broad-linear, obtuse, sulcate, hispid, glabrescent. blowers 3-nate; peduncles 1.2-1.4 cm long and, as the bracts and sepals, glandular-pubescent, dark-to crimson-red; bracts, 2 median, 1 subremote, 5-6 mm long, oblong-subacute. Sepals 7 mm long, like the bracts but lanceolate-oblong. Corolla about 2 cm long, ovoid-urceolate, sometimes much inflated, dry, pubescent, brilliant red to crimson; lobes 2 mm long, obtuse, Anthers included to manifest, 2 mm long, dorsifixed, oblong, obtuse, muticous; pore 1/3 the length of the cell. Ovary on an 8-toothed disc, oblong, glabrous; style at length exserted; stigma simple.