Erica dodii Guthrie & Bolus

Erect, 10-12 in. high, glabrous in all parts; branches numerous, spreading or straggling, striate with long prominent linear leaf-cushions, deeply channelled between; leaves 4-nate, spreading-or squarrose-incurved, linear, acute, sulcate, 4 lin. long; inflorescence as in E. regerminans, but the pseudospikes shorter (the longest about 1 1/2 in.), narrower and denser, and the intermixed leaves longer and more prominent; pedicels decurved, 1/2-1 1/2 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel-tipped, scarious, greenish with rosy tips, 3/4-1 lin. long; corolla 1 1/2-2 lin. long, campanulate-cyathiform, sometimes subobconic, about equal at the throat and mouth; tube pale rosy becoming darker upwards; limb bright red; segments slightly spreading or suberect, rounded, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers dorsifixed near the base, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1/4 lin. long, aristate; pore about 1/2 the length of the cell; awns subsetiform, pallid, about equal to the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary oblate-spheroidal, glabrous.