Erica caterviflora Salisb.

Arborescent, 8-12 ft. high; branches hirsute, the older glabrescent; leaves 4-nate, suberect or spreading-incurved, stout, semiterete, sulcate, hirsute, glabrescent or glabrous, 2 1/2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal and lateral, congested in clusters at the ends of the branches; pedicels usually hirsute, 1-2 lin. long; bracts remote and small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, ciliate, hirsute, under 1 lin. long; corolla oblong-tubular, or clavate-tubular, mouth not (or very slightly) contracted, subtetragonous, ribbed, roughly hirsute with tuberculate hairs like those of E. hirtiflora, white or pale rose, 2 1/2 lin. long; segments generally spreading, short, rounded; filaments capillary, bent below the anther; anthers included, dorsifixed shortly above the base, broadly oblong or subelliptical, very obtuse, 1/4 lin. long, subcristate; pore very wide, more than 1/2 the length of the cell; appendages from a broader denticulate base suddenly narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 2/3 the length of the cell; style included, slender; stigma small, capitulate; ovary glabrous.