Erica hirta Thunb.

Branches viscous-pubescent and setose; leaves 3-nate, spreading, from linear (margins rovolute and approximate) to lanceolate and open-backed, acute, sub-viscous-puberulous, the younger setose, 2-3 lin. long; flowers terminal, 3-nate; pedicels puberulous, 2 1/2 lin. long (in Salisbury's specimen, probably from Roxburgh), to 5-7 lin. (in Thunberg's figure); bracts remote, small; sepals somewhat lax and spreading, foliaceous, linear or narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent and setulose, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; corolla broad-urceolate, not much contracted at the throat, pubescent, 2 1/2-3 lin. long; segments spreading, about 1/4 the length of the tube; filaments narrow-linear; anthers included, lateral, oblong, tapering slightly to the apex, subobtuse (but in front view acuminate), smooth and submembranous, about 3/4 lin. long, aristate; pore 1/2 the length of the cell; awns ciliolate about 2/5 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitellate; ovary hispid.