Erica diotiflora Salisb.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches many, suberect, often flexuous, somewhat slender, pubescent; leaves 3-nate, suberect to spreading, not crowded, slender, linear, subacute, sulcate, glabrous, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels slender, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals lanceolate, puberulous, subfoliaceous, coloured, about 1/2 lin. long; corolla from campanulate-cyathiform with the mouth slightly, or not, contracted, to ovoid-suburceolate with a moderately contracted mouth, glabrous, minutely pulverulent or impressed-punctate, dry, rich ruby-red or purple, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long; segments 1/5-1/4 the length of the tube; anthers usually included, about equal to the corolla, sometimes subexserted, sublateral, attached to the filaments dorsally at the base, longish oblong, wider at the base, from 4 to 7 times as long as the width in the middle, over 1/2 lin. long, muticous; pore 1/7-1/5 the length of the cell; style exserted, decurved; stigma capitate; ovary hispidulous.