Erica filamentosa Andrews

Slender, erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches subvirgate, puberulous, channelled between the long prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 6-nate or irregular and somewhat scattered, erect-incurved, crowded, tremulous, slender-linear, acute, round-backed or keeled, sulcate, glabrous, 5-7 lin. long, about 1/4 lin. wide; petioles pallid, about 1 lin. long, 1/12 lin. wide; inflorescence axillary, crowded towards the ends of the branches; pedicels slender, 4-6 lin. long; bracts remote, small; sepals linear from a short ovate or lanceolate base, acuminate, coloured, 2 lin. long; corolla obconic-or subobconic-tubular, much wider at the mouth than at the base, glabrous or minutely puberulous, dry, rosy, 4-4 1/2 lin. long; anthers included, dorsifixed just above the base, oblong, obtuse, 2/3-4/5 lin. long, muticous; pore a little under or over 1/2 the length of the cell; style at length exserted; stigma capitellate; ovary exactly that of the two preceding species.