Erica collina Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 1-2 ft. high; branches slender, ascending, subflexuous, pubescent; leaves 4-nate, erect to spreading, sometimes squarrose, incurved towards the apex, linear-oblong, acute, keeled, glabrous, concave above, the younger minutely ciliolate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; inflorescence clustered at the ends of the branches and then subumbellate, or axillary below the end with the branch excurrent beyond, both forms on the same plant; flowers subcalycine; pedicels very slender, pubescent, 3-4 lin. long; bracts frequently (or always ?) only 2, remote, linear, scarious, adpressed; sepals ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, coloured, keeled, not imbricate at the base, glabrous, reaching mostly to a little below the corolla-tube, about 1 1/4 lin. long; corolla subampullaceous-urceolate, with a longish neck, tetragonous, rosy red, 1 1/2-1 3/4 lin. long; segments suberect, rounded, 1/5-1/4 the length of the tube; anthers oblong, obtuse, smooth, about 1/3 lin. long (.03 in.), aristate; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; awns subulate, about 1/3 the length of the cell, entire; style included, very short; stigma capitellate; ovary subglobose, puberulous or glabrescent.