Erica fausta Salisb.

Branchlets rather straight, finely pubescent intermixed with long coarser white hairs, the pubescence said by Bentham to be subviscid; leaves 3-nate, spreading, ovate-elliptical to narrow-lanceolate, acute, open-backed, puberulous, setose-ciliate with long hairs, 2-3 lin. long; flowers 3-nate; pedicels 1 1/2 lin. long; bracts approximate, small and slender; sepals subulate, acute, densely setose-hispid, coloured on the lower part, foliaceous above, 1 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate-campanulate, puberulous, mouth wide, scarcely contracted at the throat, about 2 lin. long; segments somewhat spreading, about 1/2 as long as the tube; anthers included, longer than the corolla-tube and manifest, dorsifixed well above the base, oblong, obtuse, about 2/3 lin. long, cristate; crests sublanceolate, acuminate, distantly toothed on the outer margin, incurved about 2/3 the length of the cell; style subexserted; stigma capitellate; ovary densely hispid.