Erica glandulifera Klotzsch

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches slender, rusty brown, together with the leaves, pedicels, bracts and sepals more or less densely covered with gland-tipped hairs; lower leaves 3-nate, upper scattered, erect or spreading, imbricate, linear-subulate, obtuse, sulcate, 2-3 lin. long; flowers in the axils of the upper leaves on one or more branchlets, forming a racemose panicle 4-5 in. long, or often simply racemose; pedicels 1 1/2-2 lin. long; bracts, two sometimes approximate, sometimes remote, the third basal, oblong, obtuse, foliaceous; sepals oblong or oblanceolate, subobtuse, sulcate, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla tubular, more or less (but never much) inflated below the middle, somewhat contracted at the throat, viscid, puberulous; tube 3-4 lin. long; limb short, erect-spreading; anthers included, cuneate-linear, acute, 3/4 lin. long; crests ovate, acute, about 1/5 the length of the cell; ovary sessile, not contracted above the disk, glabrous.