Erica lanata Andrews

Erect, 2-3 ft. high; branches stout, pilose; leaves mostly 4-nate (or sometimes, ex Andrews' fig., 3-nate), erect-spreading, lanceolate to oblong, acute, open-backed, margins revolute, pilose above, canescent beneath, 2-3 lin. long, 1 lin. wide or less; flowers subcapitate, calycine; heads laxly 4-6-flowered, subsessile; bracts approximate, oblanceolate, densely villous, equalling or exceeding the sepals and corolla; sepals spathulate, acute, margins revolute, densely villous in the upper part, whitish, nearly equal to the corolla, 2 lin. long; corolla cyathiform-campanulate (globose-urceolate, ex Andrews' fig.), hispidulous or puberulous, white, about 2 lin. long; segments rounded, spreading, 1/3-3/8 the length of the tube; filaments nearly straight or strongly bent below the anther; anthers exerted; cells bipartite to the base, narrow-elliptical, acute, scaberulous, dark-brown, 7/8 lin. long; stigma subsimple, small; ovary pubescent or pilose.