Erica laeta Bartl.

A glabrous erect shrub, 6-12 in. or more high; leaves mostly erect, imbricate, linear, acute, sulcate, keeled, 2-3 1/2 lin. long; flowers 4-nate, or shortly umbellate; pedicels slender, 2-4 lin. long; bracts remote; sepals subulate, or linear-acuminate from a wide base, or lanceolate-acuminate, keel-tipped, 1-1 1/2 lin. long; corolla urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, mouth, more or less contracted, sometimes subtetragonous, usually bright red, 2-2 1/2 (rarely 3) lin. long; limb erect, 1/4-1/3 the length of the tube; anthers included, oblong, obtuse, naked on the margins, 2/5 lin. long; pore 1/2-7/8 the length of the cell; connective produced backwards at a right angle from above the base of the cells, bearing a broadish ovate or subfalcate-ovate, acute, serrulate, but not fimbriate, white, papery crest, as long as or longer than the cells; style included or shortly exserted; stigma capitate; ovary sessile, glabrous, smooth or scabrid.