Erica cordata Andrews

Erect, 1 1/4 ft. or more high; branches more or less slender, sometimes spreading, but not diffuse, closely pubescent and also densely pilose with gland-tipped hairs; leaves 3-nate, spreading, somewhat crowded, from ovate to lanceolate, acute, open-backed, more or less strongly revolute at the margins, sometimes subcordate at the base, upper surface hispid with tubercle-based hairs, becoming scabrid, closely pale tomentose below, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long, or, in luxuriant specimens, 4 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate, more rarely clustered or capitate, 3-6-flowered, subcalycine; pedicels pilose, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small, scarious; sepals ovate, acute or acuminate, scarious, subviscid, coloured, ciliate, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate-campanulate or globose-urceolate, mouth not, or very slightly, contracted, subviscidulous, shining, pale red, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long; segments rounded, mostly spreading, about 1/3 as long as the tube; filaments rather broad, dilated just below the anther; anthers subexserted, lateral, oblong, tapering towards the apex, not quite 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore over 1/2 as long as the cell; style exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary villous.