Erica coarctata J.C.Wendl.

Usually less than 1 ft. high; branches many, slender, suberect, mostly stub-virgate, puberulous or glabrous; leaves mostly 3-nate, more rarely 4-nate (in some specimens 3-nate on the barren, 4-nate on the flowering branches), spreading or incurved, uniformly crowded or gemmiferous in clusters separated by distinct internodes, linear, blunt, trigonous or subterete, 2 1/2-4 lin. long; flowers mostly in pairs, more or less crowded along a great part of the branches, and forming a narrow and sometimes dense pseudo-spike; pedicels 1/2-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, basal, minute; sepals ovate or lanceolate, acute, keeled, glabrous, greenish, about 1/2 lin. long, or about equalling the corolla-tube; corolla globose-cyathiform to campanulate-cyathiform, the mouth probably nearly equal at maturity but becoming somewhat contracted shortly after, glabrous, rosy or sordid yellow, about 3/4 lin. long; segments erect or slightly spreading, about equal to the tube; anthers mostly just manifest, or a little longer or shorter than the corolla, subovate, smooth, brown, 2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/3 to nearly 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted, mostly at length decurved; stigma cyathiform, peltate (or perhaps becoming calyptriform ?); ovary glabrous.