Erica dysantha Benth.

Branches straggling, slender, 12 in. or more long, red, shortly pubescent and also pilose with longer hairs; leaves 3-nate, squarrose, linear, sulcate below, hispid, ciliate, over 1 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels less than 1 lin. long; bracts approximate, one foliaceous, the others small, linear, pilose; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, pilose, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate, mouth only slightly contracted, pilose with long stiffish hairs, nearly 2 1/2 lin. long; limb erect, 1/4 the length of the tube; segments rounded; filaments widened below the anthers, straight; anthers just included, oblong, very obtuse, less than 1/2 lin. long, with two very short squarrose tooth-like appendages at the base; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary villous with long hairs.