Erica demissa Klotzsch ex Benth.

Erect, much branched, probably under 1 ft. high; branches puberulous or shortly floccose, glabrescent; leaves 3-nate, erect to spreading, or sometimes recurved, somewhat crowded, linear to oblong, subobtuse, sulcate, glabrous, glossy, ciliate, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers terminal, or by partial abortion of floriferous branchlets sometimes apparently lateral; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; bracts two approximate, or nearly so, third remote and longer, or all subapproximate; sepals lanceolate, acute, keeled, rigid and somewhat scarious, glabrous, about 3/4 lin. long; corolla narrow-cyathiform to subovoid, the mouth in the latter case contracted, minutely hispidulous, rarely (perhaps only in age) glabrous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; anthers exserted, lateral, oblong, subobtuse or acute, a little under or over 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted, stoutish; stigma peltate-capitate; ovary puberulous, rarely subglabrous.