Erica filiformis Salisb.

Procumbent, sometimes almost prostrate, much branched, spreading 6-8 in. from the stem in every direction; branches puberulous, leafy; leaves 3-nate, erect-spreading, usually shorter than the internodes, linear-subterete, sulcate, hirsute or glabrescent, mostly with a tuft of white hairs at the apex, 1 1/2-3 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate or in clusters of 3-6; pedicels slender, about 1 lin. long; bracts closely approximate, small; sepals linear-subulate or narrow-lanceolate, acute, foliaceous, hirsute, shortly gland-ciliate, about 1 lin. long; corolla suburceolate, tubular-urceolate or ovoid-urceolate, more or less contracted at the throat, usually tetragonous, viscid, glabrous, 1 1/4-1 3/4 lin. long; segments more or less spreading or suberect, semiovate, rounded, from 1/3-1/2 the length of the tube; stamens usually 8, but often 4-7; filaments narrow, a little dilated and dark-coloured below the anther; anthers exserted or subexserted, lateral, sublateral or rarely subterminal, narrow-oblong, 1/3-2/5 lin. long, muticous; pore about 3/4 the length of the cell; style slender, exserted; stigma small, subsimple; ovary globose, glabrous.