Erica distorta Bartl.

Mostly dwarf, diffuse, under 1 ft. high; branches numerous, ascending or divaricate, hirsute; leaves 4-nate, erect-incurved or spreading, linear, sulcate, thick, hirsute, 1 1/2-2 1/2 lin. long; flowers clustered, subcapitate; pedicels 1/2-1 lin. long or less; bracts remote, small; sepals linear to cuneate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, under 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-broad-cyathiform, pubescent, sometimes prominently veined, not widened to the mouth in the living state (when dried and compressed appearing widened), white turning brown, pale rose or crimson, 1-1 1/4 lin. long, and about as broad; limb usually spreading at maturity, broad and rounded, rarely subacute; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, oblong, subobtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, subcristate; pore 3/5 the length of the cell; appendages from a broader ciliolate base narrowed to subulate-acuminate, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous.