Erica gnaphaloides L.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches mostly erect and fastigiate, slender, puberulous, glabrescent, the younger angular by prominent leaf-cushions; leaves 3-nate, erect and mostly adpressed, not crowded, equalling or longer than the internodes, linear, blunt, sulcate, glabrous, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 3-nate, often clustered; pedicels 3/4-1/2 lin. long; bracts, 2 subapproximate, 1 remote, narrow-lanceolate; sepals obovate, elliptical or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keeled, concave, more or less imbricate at the base, incurved but often somewhat spreading at the apex, about 1 1/2 lin. long, pallid or rosy; corolla somewhat variable, campanulate-tubular to obconic, sometimes subtetragonous, 1 1/4-1 1/2 lin. long, rarely in fully-matured and well-grown plants (Schlechter, 5397) 1 3/4 or nearly 2 lin. long; segments at maturity recurved, rounded, from 1/4-1/2 the length of the tube, concolorous or nearly so; anthers oblong, obtuse, ascending at the base, 1/4 lin. long, with the pore less than 1/2 the length of the cell, or longitudinally semi-elliptical, tapering to base and apex, 2/5 lin. long, with the pore 2/3 the length of the cell; cells deeply parted, crested; crests subovate, acute in outline, incised, naked or ciliolate, about 1/2 the length of the cell; style included, angular; stigma 4-fid, cruciform; ovary pallid, lobed, glabrous.