Erica intervallaris Salisb.

Erect, 1-1 1/2 ft. high; branches many, virgate, slender, pubescent or pilose; leaves 4-nate, incurved-erect to squarrose, narrow linear, sulcate, pubescent, glabrescent, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, mostly densely crowded on short branchlets along the branches, forming a pseudoraceme; pedicels very short; bracts remote, small; sepals linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, rarely broad-ovate, acuminate, glabrous, ciliate, or sometimes naked, usually smooth and glossy, coloured, 1-1 1/4 lin. long; corolla narrow-cyathiform, or suburceolate-cyathiform, mouth scarcely contracted, tetragonous, glabrous or more rarely with a fine and scanty pubescence, bright rosy-red, 1 1/2-2 lin. long; segments eject or spreading, rounded, 1/4-1/2 the length of the tube; anthers included, dorsifixed above the base, narrow-oblong, obtuse, about 1/3 lin. long, aristate; awns slender, rough-edged, 1/2 the length of the cell; style included; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous or puberulous.